FAKE NEWS DETECTION APPLICATION

This application helps people to check if a news is fake or real, and thereby stay away from the fake news that spreads on social media.

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Functionalities

• It uses NLP techniques to pre-process the news-title.
• The input is then taken by LSTM model.
• The model detects if the news is fake or real.
• The final answer is displayed on web-app using streamlit.

Instructions to run

• Pre-requisites:

  • Being familiar with any code-editor like VS Code, Pycharm etc, and using command line
  • Open the Project folder in your code-editor

• Directions to Install

env\scripts\activate
pip install -r requirement.txt

• Directions to Execute

env\scripts\activate
streamlit run app.py

• You can check our deployed app here

https://fakenewsds.herokuapp.com/

Contributors

PALAK AGGARWAL

SHEEL PATEL

License

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