Figure 11: Confusion Matrix for LIAR dataset.
Figure 12: Confusion Matrix for Polifact dataset.
found that the most accurate results can be obtained
with logistic regression based algorithms. As a future
work, we would like to extend our analysis by better
considering also user profiles’ features and some kind
of dynamic analysis of news diffusion mechanism in
our fake news detection model.
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