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Recognition of Serious Issue Haunting the Social Media Platforms to Detect Fake Accounts Using Machine Learning

Abstract

Social media is presently a significant piece of our daily life. Currently more than the half of the world is an active user of the social media platforms. The ever -increasing popularity of these platforms has also given rise to a major issue which is the presence of fake accounts on them. These fake accounts serve the purpose of impersonating or cat-fishing other people. They have become an easy way to sell fake products and services to the customers. Also, the personal data of billions of people are at stake. These threats have made it essential to detect and deactivate the dummy accounts before any harm gets done. By the virtue of Machine learning it has become easy to automatically detect millions of such accounts in a matter of seconds. In this project, we explore a deep learning model that can be used to classify a given account as real or fake, especially in Instagram. In the proposed work accuracy of the model is 93.63 percent. 

Country : India

1 B. Swetha

  1. Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Malla Reddy College of Engineering for Women, Hyderabad -500100, Telangana, India

IRJIET, Volume 2, Issue 7, September 2018 pp. 28-33

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