A Survey on Natural Language Processing for Fake News Detection

Understand

Fake news detection is a critical yet challenging problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

• The rapid rise of social networking platforms has not only yielded a vast increase in information accessibility but has also accelerated the spread of fake news.
• Thus, the effect of fake news has been growing, sometimes extending to the offline world and threatening public safety.
• Given the massive amount of Web content, automatic fake news detection is a practical NLP problem useful to all online content providers, in order to reduce the human time and effort to detect and prevent the spread of fake news.