Fake news Detect

[Vincent Davis]

Data Sceptic has a couple podcast and some of the code is open source.
https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2018/algorithmic-detection-of-fake-news

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Vincent Davis
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:39 PM Mike Dewhirst <miked at dewhirst.com.au>
wrote:

> On 18/07/2020 6:16 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2020-07-17, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:02:15 -0000 (UTC), Gazu <Gazu at freoeo.net>
> declaimed
> >> the following:
> >>
> >>> Hey Guys I am new to python and i am building a fake news detection
> >>> system ...
> >>      I suspect that, if anyone had done this already, it would likely be
> >> found on some source code archive (github?) -- and you'd just be
> >> duplicating the effort.
> >>
> >>      Essentially, since the core of this functionality depends upon the
> >> algorithm, YOU will have to develop the algorithm.
> > Or he could do something easier like eliminating hunger, war and
> > Covid-19.
>
> Or like changing culture to give more weight to education, integrity
> etc. We need systems to automatically identify fake news and educate
> believers. News consumers have to do it.
>
> News consumers need a system where they can go to check news items to
> see if they are credible. Without the cooperation of news conduits - to
> label news items with the source - that will be difficult.
>
> However, that doesn't mean the crowd can't check credibility. So,
> culture change is needed. No-one wants to be outed as a fake news source.
>
> Here's a project. Build an automatic news aggregation site which
> collects all news in two pages per news item. Page 1 for the item and
> page 2 for the crowd credibility assessment and naming of the apparent
> source. Should work somewhat like Wikipedia. Except editors for page 2
> would need a threshold score for being correct. Everyone can criticise
> but you lose points for being on the wrong side of history.
>
> That'll be 2 cents
>
> Mike
>
> >
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> > Grant
> >
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