Journal of English Language Literature and Education ISSN: 2710-4923 (Online) Vol. 4 Issue 1 (July-September 2022) pp 62-82 ISSN: 2663-3485 (Print) 62 A Corpus Driven Text Analysis of "Fake Social Media News": A Case Study of The Indian Chronicles Wardah Azhar 1 Syed Kazim Shah 2 1 Government College University, Faisalabad – Pakistan 2 Government College University, Faisalabad – Pakistan Abstract Online media has become a huge strategy for the tremendous extent of information, it spread in all occupations, including publicizing, and news-projecting, and that is only the start. This use of change is a direct result of some novel features, for instance, adaptability, free speech, and insight. Thus, a layperson is always subjected to being exposed to illegitimate “news”. Hence, the need to explore this phenomenon from the textual and linguistic perspective arose. This paper aims to investigate how “fake news” is generated linguistically and which textual features are employed by the “fake news” to make them look legitimate. The data was extracted from the report “The Indian Chronicles” – which is a source of certified counterfeit news. A systemic functional language approach is applied, where for exploration of textual features; a small corpus of fake news is compiled and tagged and through the software UAM, textual features are extracted and identified. Results have displayed, that fake news operates via centralizing participants: inanimate authority material the most, the strategy of manipulation, persuasion was most recurring, and so was foregrounding of inanimate material authority and lastly application of UAM to apply SFL concludes that the socio-cultural perspective of war and hatred in general, is the cause of this generation of fake news. Keywords: CDA, Fake news, SFL, Social media, UAM Author’s E-mail: wardah.azhar@gcuf.edu.pk Introduction Online media has become a huge strategy for the tremendous extent of information, sharing of information, and correspondence in all occupations, including publicizing, news-projecting, and that is only the start (Zafarani, Abbasi and H. Liu 2014). This use of change is a direct result of some novel features, for instance, adaptability, free speech, and