The rise of fake news presents significant issues, particularly for underrepresented lan guages. This study tackles fake news identification in Dravidian languages with two subtasks: binary classification of YouTube comments and multi-class classification of Malayalam news into five groups. Text preprocessing, vectorization, and transformer-based embeddings are all part of the methodology, including baseline comparisons utilizing classic machine learning, deep learning, and transfer learning models. In Task 1, our solution placed 17th, displaying acceptable binary classification per formance. In Task 2, we finished eighth place by effectively identifying nuanced categories of Malayalam news, demonstrating the efficacy of transformer-based models.

Commonly used language defines “hate speech” as objectionable statements that may jeopardize societal harmony by singling out a group or a person based on fundamental traits (including gender, caste, or religion). Using machine learning techniques, our research focuses on identifying hate speech in social media comments. Using a variety of machine learning methods, we created machine learning models to detect hate speech. An approximate Macro F1 of 0.60 was attained by the created models.