A Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Detecting Harmful and Misleading Online Content
The proliferation of malicious and deceptive information on the internet poses an important problem in automated detection, especially because of language heterogeneity, classes imbalance, and the practicality of the computational requirements of the large transformer models. This paper examines an ensemble classifier, a multi-view text classification system that is analytically trained. The architecture proposed will combine complementary feature representations whereby Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are combined with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory networks (BiLSTM) and TF-IDF features to represent global statistical term significance. The framework employs Fast Learning Network (FLN) with the weights on the output obtained as result of an analytic calculation based on the MoorePenrose pseudoinverse, as opposed to a conventional gradient-based classification head. The analytical classifier is further expanded by bootstrap aggregation to make it stronger and less variable, and the ensemble thus becomes FLN-Bagging. The strategy is tested on two benchmark datasets, which vary in their properties: the imbalanced Cyber Troll dataset (20,001 tweets) and the FA-KES fake news dataset (804 news articles). The experimental results indicate that the FLN classifier has an accuracy of 93.84% and 95.72% on Cyber Troll and FA-KES respectively, which are improved to 94.58% and 96.63% with FLN-Bagging. The scores of ROCAUC are 0.93 and 0.99 on the two sets, respectively. Multi-run appraisals and controlled ablation experiments also indicate that the ensemble extension is always more effective in enhancing performance stability. These results indicate that analytically trained ensemble classifiers can provide competitive predictive accuracy and at reduced cost of classifier-stage computation, potentially of useful value as an alternative to gradient-based classification heads in multi-view natural language processing (NLP) system particularly when the task is task-specific or resource-constrained. © 2026, Politeknik Negeri Padang. All rights reserved.