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Fake news is playing an increasingly dominant role in spreading misinformation by influencing people’s perceptions or knowledge to distort their awareness and decision-making.
The growth of social media and online forums has spurred the spread of fake news causing it to easily blend with truthful information.
This study provides a novel text analytics–driven approach to fake news detection for reducing the risks posed by fake news consumption.
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| 1 | Fake news | Fake News - Sources that entirely fabricate information, disseminate deceptive content, or grossly distort actual news reports,aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue |
| 2 | Satire | Satire - Sources that use humor, irony, exaggeration, ridicule, and false information to comment on current events, providing fake insights about an on-going real news event. |
| 3 | Bias | Extreme Bias - Sources that come from a particular point of view and may rely on propaganda, decontextualized information, and opinions distorted as facts. |
| 4 | Conspiracy Theories | Conspiracy Theory - is an explanation or interpretation of events that is based on questionable or nonexistent evidence, which are almost always completely fabricated, even if individual elements of the theories contain nuggets of fact -- can be presented as fake news when they are packaged as factual news stories. |
| 5 | Rumor | Rumor - Sources that traffic in rumors, gossip, innuendo, and unverified claims, statement consisting of unverified pieces of information at the time of posting |
| 6 | State | State News - Sources in repressive states operating under government sanction. |
| 7 | Junk science | Junk Science - Sources that promote pseudoscience, metaphysics, naturalistic fallacies, and other scientifically dubious claims. |
| 8 | Hate | Hate News - Sources that actively promote racism (based on something such as religion, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation), misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination. |
| 9 | Clickbait | Clickbait - Sources that provide generally credible content, but use exaggerated, misleading, or questionable headlines, social media descriptions, and/or images. |
| 10 | Unreliable | Unreliable - Proceed With Caution, Sources that may be reliable but whose contents require further verification. |
| 11 | Political | Political - Sources that provide generally verifiable information in support of certain points of view or political orientations. |
| 12 | Reliable | Credible - Sources that circulate news and information in a manner consistent with traditional and ethical practices in journalism (Remember: even credible sources sometimes rely on clickbait-style headlines or occasionally make mistakes. No news organization is perfect, which is why a healthy news diet consists of multiple sources of information). |
| 13 | Celebrity | Celebrity - Celebrity/Gossip magazines (sometimes referred to as tabloid magazines) are magazines that feature scandalous stories about the personal lives of celebrities and other well-known individuals. |
| 14 | Hoax | Hoax - is a news containing facts that are either inaccurate or false but which are presented as genuine. A hoax news conveys a half-truth used deliberately to mislead the public. |
| 15 | Unknown | Unknown - is a sources that have not yet been analyzed (many of these were suggested by readers/users or are found on other lists and resources). Help us expand our resource by providing us information! |
| 16 | Propaganda | Propaganda - is the spreading of rumors, information which is often inaccurate and especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view. |
| 18 | Misinformation | Misinformation - is false, inaccurate, or misleading information that is communicated regardless of an intention to deceive. Examples of misinformation are false rumors, insults, and pranks. |
| 19 | Poor Sourcing | Poor Sourcing - is the out-of-context information that does not on its own constitute fake news. This kind of information is not wholly fabricated, and it can exist within a news report that is based on actual events that occurred but does not have the proper evidence for it. |
| 20 | Lack of Transparency | Lack of Transparency - is the out-of-context information that does not on its own constitute fake news. This kind of information is not wholly fabricated, and it can exist within a news report that is based on actual events that occurred but does not have the proper evidence for it. |
| 21 | False Information | False Information - Sources that entirely fabricate information, disseminate deceptive content, or grossly distort actual news reports,aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue |
| 22 | Sensationalism | Sensationalism - In journalism (and more specifically, the mass media), sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. |
| 23 | Plagarism | Plagiarism is the representation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work. Plagiarism is considered a violation of integrity and a breach of journalistic ethics. |
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- Programming Language : Python
- Frontend : Streamlit
- API : VirusTotal API
- Platform : Colab notebook, Jupyter notebook, Visual studio code
- Testing tool : Apache Jmeter, Google PageSpeed insights, Selenium
- Machine learning Library : Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, Huggingface transformers, simpletransformers
- Web framework : Flask
- WSGI server : Gunicorn
- Web server : Nginx
- Cloud infrastructure support: AWS EC2 instance, AWS secret manager
- Containerization/deployment: Docker
The Project Deliverables includes detailed documentation of the project, including Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Software Project Management Plan (SPMP), Software Design Description (SDD), Software Testing Document (STD), Implementation details, and Result and conclusion.
Clone git repository
$ git clone "https://github.com/hritik5102/Fake-news-classification-model"Run the setup file on git bash or any linux terminal:
$ bash setup.shRun the following commands:
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bash start-server.shon git bash or any linux terminal This will start the deep learning model servers. -
cd src -
streamlit run app.py
run bash stop-server.sh on git bash or any linux terminal
| Filename | Notebook |
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| GPT2 Model |  |
| BiLSTM + GloVe Model | |
| BERT Model | |
| Roberta Model | |
Some resources have been used to build this project, so I'd like to acknowledge the resources in the reference section. Take a look.
If you think that I've referred any piece of code or material but have not acknowledged it. Please create an issue mentioning the site info & a link pointing to that material.
See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).
Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.
Make sure your changes don't break existing functionality without good reason.
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (
git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature) - Commit your Changes (
git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature') - Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature) - Open a Pull Request
Discuss the features, ideas you want to add to the project from here 📌
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
| No. | Name | Twitter handle 🐦 | Email 📩 |
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| 1. | Heet sakaria | @HeetSakaria | heet.sakaria@somaiya.edu |
| 2. | Hritik Jaiswal | @imhritik_dj | hritik.jaiswal@somaiya.edu |
Project Link - hritik5102/Fake-news-classification-model (github.com)
Thanks goes to these wonderful people 👏👏
 Heet Sakaria 💻 🤔📖🖋 |
 vedangparasnis 💻📖 |
 Viraj Thakkar 📖 |
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