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Record W7125715213 · doi:10.3844/jcssp.2025.2951.2964

Fake News Detection Using Weighted Fine-Tuned BERT and Sparse Recurrent Neural Network

2025· article· en· W7125715213 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Computer Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMisinformation and Its Impacts
Canadian institutionsArtificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMisinformationFake newsPreprocessorRecurrent neural networkFeature (linguistics)FlaggingDeep learningArtificial neural networkWord (group theory)

Abstract

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Fake news refers to misinformation or false reports shared in the form of images, articles, or videos, disguised as real news to manipulate people’s opinions. Recently, fake news and rumors have spread extensively and rapidly around the world. This has led to the production and propagation of inaccurate news articles. Therefore, it is necessary to restrict the spread of fake information in the media to establish confidence globally. For this purpose, this research proposes Weighted Fine-tuned-Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers-based Sparse Recurrent Neural Network (WFT-BERT-SRNN) for fake news detection through Deep Learning (DL). Data preprocessing is established using stop word removal, tokenization, and stemming to eliminate unwanted phrases or words. Then, WFT-BERT is employed for feature extraction, and finally, SRNN is employed to detect and classify fake news as real or fake. WFT-BERT-SRNN achieves a superior accuracy of 0.9847, 0.9724, 0.9624, and 0.9725 on the BuzzFeed, PolitiFact, Fakeddit, and Weibo datasets compared to existing techniques like DeepFake and image caption-based technique.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.976
Threshold uncertainty score0.481

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it