aspg-31-1842-1791686992 20261011024952 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group International Journal of Advances in Applied Computational Intelligence IJAACI 2833-5600 2022 2 1 Waleed Abd Elkhalik Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharqiyah, 44519, Egypt In the era of information overload and the widespread dissemination of news through various online platforms, the identification and mitigation of fake news have become imperative. This paper presents a comprehensive investigation into the application of Transformer Networks for accurate fake news classification. Transformers, known for their ability to model long-range dependencies and capture contextual information effectively, have demonstrated outstanding performance in natural language processing tasks. Leveraging this strength, we propose a simple but effective approach that employs Transformer-based architectures to discern fake news from genuine information with high precision. In our approach, we explore various techniques, such as attention mechanisms, positional encoding, and self-attention layers, to capture important contextual relationships and optimize the classification process. Through extensive experimentation, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in accurately identifying and classifying fake news articles. Our proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on a public benchmark dataset, surpassing existing approaches. 2022 29 35 1842 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/IJAACI.020104 https://www.americaspg.com/journal/31/article/1842 https://www.americaspg.com/storage/91686319981.pdf