An Exhaustive Guide to Detecting Neural Fake News using NLP

Fake news is a major concern in our society right now. It has gone hand-in-hand with the rise of the data-driven era – not a coincidence when you consider the sheer volume of data we are generating every second! Fake news is such a widespread issue that even the world's leading dictionaries are trying to combat it in their own way. So what role has Machine Learning played in this? I'm sure you must have heard about a machine learning technique that generates fake videos mimicking famous personalities. Similarly, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques are being used to generate fake articles – a concept called "Neural Fake News". I've been working in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) space for the last few years and while I love the pace at which breakthroughs are happening, I'm also deeply concerned about the way these NLP frameworks are being used to create and spread false information.