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In this article, we introduce a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model for detecting fake news spread in social media. Considering the complexity of the fake news detection task, various features from different aspects of news articles should be captured. To this aim, we propose a multichannel CNN model that uses three distinct embedding channels: (1) contextualized text representation models; (2) static semantic word embeddings; and (3) lexical embeddings, all of which assist the classifier to detect fake news more accurately. Our experimental results on the COVID-19 fake news dataset (Patwa et al., 2020, Fighting an infodemic: COVID-19 fake news dataset, arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03327) shows that our proposed three-channel CNN improved the performance of the single-channel CNN by 0.56 and 1.32% on the validation and test data, respectively. Moreover, we achieved superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art models in the field proposed by Shifath et al., 2021, A transformer based approach for fighting COVID-19 fake news, arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.12027 and Wani et al., 2021, Evaluating deep learning approaches for COVID-19 fake news detection, arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04012.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/llc\/fqac023","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,20]],"date-time":"2022-04-20T11:13:03Z","timestamp":1650453183000},"page":"379-389","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Multichannel convolutional neural networks for detecting COVID-19 fake news"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"38","author":[{"given":"Mohammadreza","family":"Samadi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8110-1342","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Saeedeh","family":"Momtazi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023040320042905100_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"45","DOI":"10.3389\/fcomm.2020.00045","article-title":"Rising above misinformation or fake news in Africa: another strategy to control Covid-19 spread","volume":"5","author":"Ahinkorah","year":"2020","journal-title":"Frontiers in Communication"},{"key":"2023040320042905100_","first-page":"127","volume-title":"International Conference on Intelligent, Secure, and Dependable Systems in Distributed and Cloud Environments","author":"Ahmed","year":"2017"},{"issue":"2","key":"2023040320042905100_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"211","DOI":"10.1257\/jep.31.2.211","article-title":"Social media and fake news in the 2016 election","volume":"31","author":"Allcott","year":"2017","journal-title":"Journal of Economic Perspectives"},{"key":"2023040320042905100_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"101475","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tele.2020.101475","article-title":"Fake news and Covid-19: modelling the predictors of fake news sharing among social media users","volume":"56","author":"Apuke","year":"2020","journal-title":"Telematics and Informatics"},{"key":"2023040320042905100_","author":"Bojanowski","year":"2017"},{"issue":"8","key":"2023040320042905100_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1119","DOI":"10.1177\/1948550620940539","article-title":"Political ideology predicts perceptions of the threat of Covid-19 (and susceptibility to fake news about it)","volume":"11","author":"Calvillo","year":"2020","journal-title":"Social Psychological and Personality Science"},{"issue":"2","key":"2023040320042905100_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e290223","DOI":"10.3145\/epi.2020.mar.23","article-title":"Impact of Covid-19 on the media system. 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