Hoax News Detection on Social Media: A Survey

摘要

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a tool to spread and share news effectively. Social media is an Information and Communication Technology product which is a trend of future communication styles, and communication is all about an activity to share the news. The news shared on social media are not always incredible resources, or on the other hand, we can say that most of them are a hoax. According to this condition, research would like to explore what kind of method approach to detect hoax news. This research uses a survey approach to papers published during 2016-2018. By doing this work, we can know the kind of algorithms used for a similar research topic. The most popular approach according to this work is the Classification using Support Vector Machine (SVM), and the most used social media platform is Twitter.