Detecting Image-Based Fake News with Neural Sleuths
摘要
In the period of extensive social media use, unconventional formats for news sharing often lack reliability, with misleading information disseminated through graphics emerging as a unique tactic. While the verification of the authenticity of news is a broad research domain, scholars have mainly focused on textual data. The misleading information detection model described in this paper uses neural sleuth-based networks to capture image data from the freely accessible Fakeddit dataset. The results are scrutinized using a confusion matrix, and a comprehensive evaluation of the model's performance metrics is conducted across six categories: “true,” “satire,” “false connection,” “imposter content,” “manipulated content,” and “misleading content.” This work contributes an inclusive analysis of the model's effectiveness as a problem posed by misleading information on social media.