Fake news on social media : A systematic literature review

The aim of the study was to perform a systematic literature review to locate the field of researches about fake news in social media. In addition, the purpose was also to investigate what type of social media were used in each of the studies. The amount of articles that were used in the systematic literature review is 13. The use of the method contributes to a deeper understanding of how far we have come to combat fake news in social media. In this study we use the definition of fake news to be articles that purposely mislead a reader by using fabricated news. The problem with fake news is that the term is relatively new and it’s happening considerably on the digital front. Based on the result from the method we noticed several types of tools to combat fake news in different social media platforms