Fake-News-Classifier-

An API to classify fake/real news by a ML model.

Prerequisites

Install python3 and pip.

Download dataset from here.

Installing

1. Set up virtual virtual environment by running the following commands:

   python3 -m venv fakeNews
   

   On windows, run:

   fakeNews\Scripts\activate.bat
   

   On Unix or MacOS, run:

   source fakeNews/bin/activate
   

2. Install required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. To build the ML model:

   python3 fake_news_detection.py 
   

   This would create a serialized version of our model into a file model.pkl

4. To test the API on locally hosted URL http://127.0.0.1:5000/ run:

   python3 app.py
   

Use

Send POST requests at '/predict' to get a JSON response of:

{"result": "fake"} or {"result": "real"}

Try out the chrome extsion

Link to the chrome extension can be found here You might as well want to check out the extension repo here

Authors

• Tania Malhotra
• Malaika Agrawal
• Vallari Agrawal