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Fake News Detection

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An automated fake news detection website that can perform the following tasks:
● Check whether the title of the news is accurate.
● Check whether the text/content of the news is accurate.

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Getting Started

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Requirements : requests==2.23.0 numpy==1.19.5 nltk==3.2.5 pandas==1.1.5 scikit_learn==0.24.1

Clone the repo using :

git clone "https://github.com/Mini-Project-Sem-4/Fake_News_Detector_Using_Django.git"

Install required modules by opening command prompt in the project folder :

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the Django Server

python manage.py runserver

Download the Kaggle dataset https://www.kaggle.com/clmentbisaillon/fake-and-real-news-dataset , and move the csv files to the fakeNews/Dataset folder.

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Usage

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Check whether the text of the news is accurate:

Add an Article in the text area (Short titles can also be predicted as well as long texts).

Two or more arguments can also be passed simultaneously:

You can give multiple inputs too.

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Contributors

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Nimish Samant

Anurag Bapat

Shraddha Shinde

Tuba Momin

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