Analyzing the misleading information on Covid-19 using MBCFWS4

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had a major effect on almost every area of human lives in the majority of the world's countries. Misinformation spreads quickly in the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in different forms, such as fear, distortion, contraindication assumption, and others. False and misleading advertisements harm millions of individuals. In recent research, there are more advanced techniques have been used to address the misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. But they are self-reported and probabilistic data during the lockdown period. So, it was difficult to find the respondents' perceptions based on sharing the COVID-19 misinformation. This proposed work analyzed and filtered some optimized factors to analyze the misinformation such as fake reports, fake remedies, conspiracy, susceptibility, vaccine rumors, social media, vitamin D prevents corona, political corona, socio-Economic, and more side effects after getting vaccinated. Collaborative filtering (CF) is the most efficient recommender system, and it is extensively utilized by a broad range of research institutions and enterprises, as well as being used in practice. It consists of two types of CF namely Memory-based CF and Model-based CF. In this work, Memory-based CF recommendation algorithm is combined with a similarity measure called MBCFWS4 to analyze the similarity measure between the factors to conclude the most impact factor. The Primary and secondary dataset helps to identify the respondents' perception based on the COVID-19 misinformation. The efficiency comparison of the proposed work is measured in terms of Precision, Recall & F-measure and found that this analysis using MBCFWS4 is outperforming well than the others as MBCFWS4 predicted accurately and revealed the conclusion based on the COVID-19 misinformation.