The increasing concern with misinformation has stimulated research efforts on automatic fact checking.
As the COVID-19 virus quickly spreads around the world, unfortunately, misinformation related to COVID-19 also gets created and spreads like wild fire.
The search can directly warn fake news posters and online users (e. g. the posters' followers) about misinformation, discourage them from spreading fake news, and scale up verified content on social media.
Thus, it is important to detect and control the misinformation in such platforms before it spreads to the masses.
For our analysis in this paper, we report a methodology to analyze the reliability of information shared on social media pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The rapid growth of social media content during the current pandemic provides useful tools for disseminating information which has also become a root for misinformation.
As social media becomes increasingly prominent in our day to day lives, it is increasingly important to detect informative content and prevent the spread of disinformation and unverified rumours.
The majority of existing fake news detection algorithms focus on mining news content and/or the surrounding exogenous context for discovering deceptive signals; while the endogenous preference of a user when he/she decides to spread a piece of fake news or not is ignored.
Most corpora approach misinformation as a binary problem, classifying texts as real or fake.
Fact-checking is an essential tool to mitigate the spread of misinformation and disinformation.