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Fake News Detector

Train a model to flag likely-misleading headlines from real ones.

Start building ↓
fig — working model Result first

The build

Step 01

Clean headlines

Prepare and label the text.

Step 02

Vectorise

Turn words into features (TF-IDF).

Step 03

Train

Fit a classifier on real vs fake.

Step 04

Test

Check new headlines.

Working Principle

The model learns word and phrasing patterns more common in misleading text, then scores new headlines against them.

The science behind it

A closer look

It's text classification; results are only as good (and as biased) as the labelled data — a key lesson in responsible AI.

Take it further

Variables to test

  • 1 Find a real headline it wrongly flags — why?
  • 2 Discuss the risks of trusting it blindly.

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