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Deep learning techniques, particularly neural networks that rely on popular graph representation techniques such as graph convolutional networks (GCNs), are increasingly being utilized to detect fake news, fake accounts, and rumors spreading through social media. In this paper, features were extracted using TF-IDF, Bag-of-Words, and bigrams. The evaluation was conducted using the standard Kaggle\/ISOT and GossipCop datasets, which include news headlines and published models. Using the extracted features, the proposed GCN-based model\/classifier achieved a high detection accuracy of 95% by combining TF-IDF and Bag-of-Words representations. 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