Fake news detector system to identify unreliable news

Abstract

The digital information age has generated new outlets for content creators to publish
so-called “fake news”, a new form of propaganda that is intentionally designed to mislead the
reader. With the widespread effects of the fast dissemination of fake news, efforts have been
made to automate the process of fake news detection. In this project, we will focus on the
“fact” and not directly on the “truth” which is somehow related to the emotion and personal
belief in the age of “post-truth”. In our definition, “fact” is that things actually happened, and
“truth” is that people think or believe that things happened. Our approach is to hopefully
bring the consensus eventually of the “truth” to people mind by certifying and broadcasting
“fact”. The three interactive functions of social media - tracking, sharing and creating -
empower users to keep abreast of popular information, to repost any news (e.g., special
reports, news videos, latest research, etc.), to express subjectively determined facts, and to
even host the live broadcast. Through the tracking, sharing and creation interaction among a
large user base, social media has been able to shape the major civic activities.

Objectives
 Detection of fake news online is important in today's society as fresh news content is
rapidly being produced as a result of the abundance of technology that is present.
 To detect fake news that is only partially correct, extending fake news detection to a
multi-label classification or regression problem may be more appropriate than
defining it as a binary classification problem.
 Provides secure measures by avoiding or blocking fake news and improves the
efficiency.

ALGORITHM

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS
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Hardware Requirements:
 Processor : Intel processor 3.0 GHz
 RAM : 2GB
 Hard disk : 500 GB
 Compact Disk : 650 Mb
 Keyboard : Standard keyboard
 Monitor : 15 inch color monitor

Software Requirements:

 Front End : PYTHON

 Back End : MYSQL
 Server : WAMP
 Operating System : Windows OS
 System type : 32-bit or 64-bit Operating System
 IDE : PYTHON 3.7
 DLL : Depends upon the title