Abstract
There is an “Infodemic” of COVID-19 in which there are a lot of rumours and information disorders spreading rapidly, the purpose of the study is to build a predictive model for identifying whether the COVID-19 information in the Malay language in Malaysia is real or fake. Under the study of COVID-19 fake news detection, the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) is used to generate synthetic instances of real news in the training set after natural language processing (NLP) and before data modelling because the number of fake news is approximately three times greater than that of real news. Logistic regression, Naïve Bayes, decision trees, support vector machines, random forests, and gradient boosting are employed and compared to determine the most suitable predictive model. In short, the gradient-boosting classifier model has the highest value of accuracy and F1-score.
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