Covid-19-Fake-News-Detection

The competition was "SHARED TASK @ CONSTRAINT 2021" : https://constraint-shared-task-2021.github.io/

COVID19 Fake News Detection in English - This subtask focuses on the detection of COVID19-related fake news in English. The sources of data are various social-media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Given a social media post, the objective of the shared task is to classify it into either fake or real news.

For example, the following two posts belong to fake and real categories, respectively.

• If you take Crocin thrice a day you are safe. ----> Fake

• Wearing mask can protect you from the virus. ----> Real