Fake news is a fabricated information which widely spreads due to the immense usage of social media and online news sites to deceive people. Because of the easier access to the social media people tries getting news via these online Medias and hence it’s easier to deceive people ifthe fake news is spread through it. Thus we could say that obtaining news from social media has two sides, one is the possibility of consuming different aspects of a single news easily and the other is the manipulation of the news due to private opinions or interest. Most of the times a fake news become unidentifiable with a real one. Also, social media is an easier platform to widely spread an information and atthe end ofthe day it deliberately causes someone to believe what is not true and hasthe ability to create an immense impact on the society. This paper is a study on different techniques that deals with the classification of a news as real or fake.