Early identification of false news is now essential to save lives from the dangers posed by its spread. People keep sharing false information even after it has been debunked. Those responsible for spreading misleading information in the first place should face the consequences, not the victims of their actions. Understanding how misinformation travels and how to stop it is an absolute need for society and government. Consequently, the necessity to identify false news from genuine stories has emerged with the rise of these social media platforms. One of the tough issues of conventional methodologies is identifying false news. In recent years, neural network models' performance has surpassed that of classic machine learning approaches because of their superior feature extraction. This research presents Deep learning-based Fake News Detection (DeepFND). This technique has Visual Geometry Group 19 (VGG-19) and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) ensemble models for identifying misinformation spread through social media. This system uses an ensemble deep learning (DL) strategy to extract characteristics from the article's text and photos. The joint feature extractor and the attention modules are used with an ensemble approach, including pre-training and fine-tuning phases. In this article, we utilized a unique customized loss function. In this research, we look at methods for detecting bogus news on the internet without human intervention. We used the Weibo, liar, PHEME, fake and real news, and Buzzfeed datasets to analyze fake and real news. Multiple methods for identifying fake news are compared and contrasted. Precision procedures have been used to calculate the proposed model's output. The model's 99.88% accuracy is better than expected.

Department of Applied Cybernetics University of Hradec Králové Hradec Kralove Czech Republic

Department of Applied Mathematics with Oceanology and Computer Programming Vidyasagar University Midnapore India

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Yuan Ze University Taoyuan City Taiwan

Department of Industrial Engineering Istinye University Istanbul Turkey

Department of Language Preparation Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbia

MEU Research Unit Middle East University Amman Jordan

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