Fake-News-Detection

IndiSafe-Hackathon'23
- Team K-TRAPS

Fake News Detector to check the authenticity of news articles The key features: Along with checking validity of the news also cites the reliable souces and information related to the topic Recommendation system and analysis of trending news

Features

User-Side 👨‍🎓

• User can validate news articles
• Obtained results can be shared on social media platforms

Admin-side👨‍💻

• Keep a record of trending news
• Analysis of news in terms of validity, hate speech, category,etc
• News is analysed in different categories like sports, politics, entertainment, education etc
• Recommendation system: to reduce the misinformation on social media of the user using filters

Web-Plugin🧩

• For an easier access of the fake news detector system we have come up with a chrome extension of the system
• Just download the chrome extension from chrome store
• User can select the text he/ she wants to verify right click and verify the validity of the news in two clicks

🛠️ Project Setup

For Web

1. Clone the repository

https://github.com/adwaitmandge/fake-news-detection

To start the User interface

cd client
npm install
npm run dev

To start the express server

cd server
npm install
npm start

To start the flask server

cd flask
pip install -r requiremnets.txt
export FLASK_APP=main.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1
flask run

🤖 Technology Stack

Frontend:-

Backend:-

👩‍💻 Team members

• Adwait Mandge
• Pranav Janjani
• Rohan Fatehchandka
• Kunal Goudani
• Tanaya Shelke
• SiddheshSingh Tanwar

🔗 Links

• GitHub repo link: Link to repository