A Survey on Fake News Detection

Social media is double edged sword for news consumption on one side it is easy to access, low cost and other side fake news will spread widely, includes false information. The wide spread of this fake news results in negative impact on society and individuals. Fake news is mainly created to misguide readers in order to believe information that is not true. Source, headline, body text and image or video are the content attributes for news. Source is the news article publisher. The short text that makes readers attention and describes the important topic in that article is called headline. The entire content about that article is present in body text and includes images or videos that are related to that article. Based on this attributes fake news characteristics are extracted.