Inspiration
In today's world we are constantly being bombarded with fake news, do you think you have what it takes to work out the real from the fake?
What it does
We build a game that shows you a series of pairs of news articles, select the real one and you gain a point, select the fake one and your score is rest to 0.
How we built it
We built a React Web App, and used the Reddit API to scrape some news articles from r/NotTheOnion and r/TheOnion.
Challenges we ran into
Some of the news articles that we got from Reddit were quite offensive and risky, so we had to go through the list and remove some.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
After playing the game quite a bit, we are proud that the game is actually enjoyable to play, which is not always the case with games that have been quickly developed.
What we learned
We have learned that real news and fake news are sometimes very hard to distinguish, as reality is sometimes weirder than fiction.
What's next for News Or Fake News
Our plan is to add more news articles to our fake and real datasets, and add a leaderboard feature.
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