Inspiration
Fake news can spread anywhere and its High time that we find a mechanism to prevent it During the Covid 19 pandemic. Fake news and false cure are causing so many dangers. Few major impacts are listed below.
Fear Financial impacts impacts on health Racist ideas Bullying and violence against innocent people Democratic impacts
What it does
It validates the authenticity of the news be it a text, image or video and the users can identify if its fake or not. Thus stops the news from spreading.
How I built it
Using Ai, Social media analysis, NLP, Python
Challenges I ran into
Finding a suitable model and training.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
we can built on top of the small POC we have created, which analyze twitter data and gives the feedback.
What I learned
its a huge area and more stronger mechanism needs to be identified for covering entire social media, time permits we will be able to find it and eliminate the panic creators.
What's next for Fake News Prevention
include all social medias under this umbrella and validate the news authenticity. A facility to notify each social media admins that the identified Fake news is being spread from a so called account and allow them to take necessary actions to prevent it there itself.
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