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Development of a Logistic Regression Model for Fake News Detection in Nigerian Social Media

The rapid growth of the use of social media is posing a significant rate of social, political and economic threats in Nigeria. Communication done online has the nature of being informal, especially in platforms like Instagram, thus complicating the verification of information. It is against this background that this study developed and evaluated a machine learning–based framework for fake news detection on the Instagram social media platform within the Nigerian context. The objectives of the study were to: (i) design a machine learning–based framework for fake news detection on Instagram; (ii)…