Is This Fake News? Using machine learning to identify fake news articles

Live Demo: www.isthisfakenews.ai (NOTE: this is currently running on a free Heroku instance, so it may take a minute to boot up / for the page to load)

How it works:

Read the paper here!

Research Notebooks

The research notebooks (/research-notebooks) were developed on Kaggle, using the Fake and real news dataset. The 2 approaches explored in the research notebooks are:

• Multi-layer Perceptron
• BERT Fine-tuning

Running the web app locally

• Install Python 3.7+
• Install the required packages with the command: python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
• Launch the web app with the command python3 -m flask run
• Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your browser
• Enjoy :)