FakeNewsNLP

A simple Flask application to check if the given news article is real or fake. Uses the LIAR dataset with fewer attributes.

NLP methods used:

Stopword removal
Lemmatization
Bag of Words
TF-IDF

Classifier used: Multinomial Naive Bayes

To run this application:

Extract the dataset 'fake_or_real_news.csv' from the zip file
Run clean.py in the fakenews module to preprocess the dataset
Run the application by executing run.py