Fake News Detection using Machine Learning – Present and Future Trends

The proliferation of yellow journalism or fake news and the way it is spreading especially on social media has become a big concern because of its devastating effects. At this stage when the information we require is under our fingertips, on the web we see a lot of cooked-up stories designed to make people believe something. This may involve buying a particular product, visit a website, or even sensitive information about religion, community, etc. This is nothing but'fake news which is a type of yellow journalism that consists of misinformation or hoaxes spread via online social media or even on print and broadcast news channels. There's almost no restriction by social media platforms for anyone to publish his/her thoughts.