Cybersecurity in Nigeria by Aamo Iorliam

Author:Aamo Iorliam
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030152109
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

3.3 Conclusion

In this chapter, we combined Benford’s law and Zipf’s law to perform analysis such that the hybrid of the two laws will obey a Power law for real news dataset and a deviation for fake news dataset. The prevalent rate of fake news and propaganda is on the rise and there are really not much research work going on to combat fake news in Nigeria. The use of a combination of Benford’s law and Zipf’s law in news analysis has proven that all real news sources obeys the Power law. We, however, proposed that fake news sources will behave differently, i.e. not obeying the Power law. During this research work, we were able to get verified real news sources for analysis but we could not get verified or certified fake news sources, hence we are proposing that the analysis of fake news sources will behave differently.

In our future work, we plan to do the following:i.Perform experiments on realistic fake news

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