Build Your Own Fake News Classifier With NLP
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Introduction
The major objective of watching or reading news was to be informed about whatever is happening around us. There are several social media platforms in the current modern era, like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and so forth where millions of users would rely upon for knowing day-to-day happenings. Then came the fake news which spread across people as fast as the real news could. Fake news is a piece of incorporated or falsified information often aimed at misleading people to a wrong path or damage a person or an entity’s reputation.
Characteristics of Fake News:
- Their sources are not genuine.
- May or may not have grammatical errors.
- Often uses attention-seeking words, click baits, etc.
- Seems too good to be true.
- Mimics the real headlines and twists the story.
A study shows that a fake tweet on Twitter spreads six times faster than the real one. Thus, it becomes necessary to find whether a piece of news is true or fake whenever