Detecting fake news using various machine learning techniques (and a pretty website 😇)

Try it here: https://is-it-real.ml

Training

To get the datasets, dependencies, and code you may run

git clone https://github.com/y-almannaee/is-it-real
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

If you are running on Linux/MacOS, you must set the environment variable for NLTK_DATA to point to where the nltk data is. On Windows, this needs to be done by editing the PATH by opening System → Advanced System Settings → Environment Variables → Path → Edit

When running on Linux, from the command line you may invoke the following command

NLTK_DATA="/home/USERNAME/is-it-real/.cache/nltk_data" python3 train.py

Trained models, corpora, processed text, etc. are stored in a .cache directory, and are not committed to this repository.

Website backend

To be able to run on Ubuntu we need to do

sudo apt install python3-pip python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
pip3 install -r requirements.txt