About Fake News Detection Project

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Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning

Overview

The topic of fake news detection on social media has recently attracted tremendous attention. The basic countermeasure of comparing websites against a list of labeled fake news sources is inflexible, and so a machine learning approach is desirable. Our project aims to use Machine learning algorithms to detect fake news directly, based on the text content of news articles.

Problem Definition

Develop a machine learning program to identify when a news source may be producing fake news. We aim to use a corpus of labeled real and fake news articles to build a classifier that can make decisions about information based on the content from the corpus. The model will focus on identifying fake news sources, based on multiple articles originating from a source. Once a source is labeled as a producer of fake news, we can predict with high confidence that any future articles from that source will also be fake news. Focusing on sources widens our article misclassification tolerance because we will have multiple data points coming from each source.

The intended application of the project is for use in applying visibility weights in social media. Using weights produced by this model, social networks can make stories that are highly likely to be fake news less visible.

Planning: -

  1. Data Collection
  2. Model Building
  3. Backend work
  4. Deployment

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Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning

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Installation

Use the package manager pip to install library.

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv env_name
env_name/scripts/activate

Start Project

Follow these commands to start your project.

pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

Home page

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Prediction page

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