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Illusion of Truth: Analysing and Classifying COVID-19 Fake News in Brazilian Portuguese Language
In: Big Data and Cognitive Computing; Volume 6; Issue 2; Pages: 36 (2022)
Abstract: Public health interventions to counter the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated and increased digital adoption and use of the Internet for sourcing health information. Unfortunately, there is evidence to suggest that it has also accelerated and increased the spread of false information relating to COVID-19. The consequences of misinformation, disinformation and misinterpretation of health information can interfere with attempts to curb the virus, delay or result in failure to seek or continue legitimate medical treatment and adherence to vaccination, as well as interfere with sound public health policy and attempts to disseminate public health messages. While there is a significant body of literature, datasets and tools to support countermeasures against the spread of false information online in resource-rich languages such as English and Chinese, there are few such resources to support Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese specifically. In this study, we explore the use of machine learning and deep learning techniques to identify fake news in online communications in the Brazilian Portuguese language relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. We build a dataset of 11,382 items comprising data from January 2020 to February 2021. Exploratory data analysis suggests that fake news about the COVID-19 vaccine was prevalent in Brazil, much of it related to government communications. To mitigate the adverse impact of fake news, we analyse the impact of machine learning to detect fake news based on stop words in communications. The results suggest that stop words improve the performance of the models when keeping them within the message. Random Forest was the machine learning model with the best results, achieving 97.91% of precision, while Bi-GRU was the best deep learning model with an F1 score of 94.03%.
Keyword: Brazilian Portuguese language; COVID-19; deep learning; exploratory data analysis; fake news; health misinformation; machine learning
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc6020036
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Classifying Fake News Articles Using Machine Learning Techniques ...
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Classifying Fake News Articles Using Machine Learning Techniques ...
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Pioneering Spirit, Perseverance, Passion. Commemorative Publication in Honor of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Handke ... : Pioniergeist, Ausdauer, Leidenschaft. Festschrift zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Jürgen Handke ...
Zeaiter, Sabrina; Franke, Peter. - : Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2020
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The meaning (s) of practice: Puzzling through performative language practice with refugee learners.
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Pioniergeist, Ausdauer, Leidenschaft. Festschrift zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Jürgen Handke
Zeaiter, Sabrina; Franke, Peter (Dr.); Crystal, David (Prof. Dr.). - : Philipps-Universität Marburg, Fremdsprachliche Philologien, 2020
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Contingencies Between Infants' Gaze, Vocal, and Manual Actions and Mothers' Object-Naming: Longitudinal Changes From 4 to 9 Months.
In: Developmental neuropsychology, vol 41, iss 5-8 (2016)
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Analyzing Exploratory Talk as a Socio-Cognitive Practice: Identity, Group Argumentation, and Class Debate Quality
In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01208319 ; 2015 (2015)
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Novel labels support 10-month-olds' attention to novel objects.
In: Symplectic Elements at Oxford ; Europe PubMed Central ; PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) ; Web of Science (Lite) (http://apps.webofknowledge.com/summary.do) ; CrossRef (2010)
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Exploratory Talk - A Framework for Building a Community of Inquiry
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The double-edged sword of pedagogy: Modeling the effect of pedagogical contexts on preschoolers’ exploratory play
In: http://141.14.165.6/CogSci09/papers/340/paper340.pdf (2009)
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Vision 3D: Digital Discovery for the Deaf
In: http://www.rit.edu/~w-tecsym/papers/2008/T9E.pdf (2008)
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Communicating and interacting: An exploration of the changing roles of media in CALL/CMC
Hoven, Debra. - : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2006
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Using Formative Writing Assignments to Enhance Student Learning in a First Year Chemistry Class
In: http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2007venice/papers/570-240.pdf
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A Plan Recognition and Visualization in Exploratory Learning Environments
In: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~gal/Papers/tiisVL.pdf
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