Inspiration

Covid-19 has changed the world in various ways. People are required to wear a face mask to enter public places like grocery stores, banks, etc. Employees of companies moved away from their offices and start working at home. People are all afraid of the virus, therefore it is important to update people with correct information so that it wouldn't mislead people.

What it does

It is a simple web application that let you paste a long text from any source of the article and predict it true or false using machine learning

How we built it

For the front-end, I used ReactJs. Then I used Python to build the machine learning model and use Flask to handle HTTP requests and generate results.

Challenges we ran into

One challenge is that I need to convert string to float so that it can match the requirements of a machine learning model

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It is able to reach 98% accuracy from the dataset.

What we learned

I've learned new skills like data mining and Flask

What's next for Fake Covid-19 News Classifier

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