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https://github.com/multivacplatform/multivac-fakenews

Detecting users and communities which propagate fake news on Twitter by Apache Spark
https://github.com/multivacplatform/multivac-fakenews

deep-learning fakenews machine-learning spark twitter

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Detecting users and communities which propagate fake news on Twitter by Apache Spark

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# multivac-fakenews [![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](https://github.com/multivacplatform/multivac-fakenews/blob/master/LICENSE) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/multivacplatform/multivac-fakenews.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/multivacplatform/multivac-fakenews) [![Multivac Discuss](https://img.shields.io/badge/multivac-discuss-ff69b4.svg)](https://discourse.iscpif.fr/c/multivac) [![Multivac Channel](https://img.shields.io/badge/multivac-chat-ff69b4.svg)](https://chat.iscpif.fr/channel/multivac)

## Introduction
Detecting users and communities in Twitter which are propagating fake and biased news sources by comparing them against existing Fake News databases.

## Data

#### FakeNews:
* Over 5000 hoax URLS constructed [by Decodex](http://www.lemonde.fr/verification/)
#### ML/Deep learning:
* Embedding: 100-dimensional pre-trained GloVe embeddings of 400k words which trained on a 2014 dump of English Wikipedia.
(https://nlp.stanford.edu/data/glove.6B.zip)

## Code of Conduct

This, and all github.com/multivacplatform projects, are under the [Multivac Platform Open Source Code of Conduct](https://github.com/multivacplatform/code-of-conduct/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md). Additionally, see the [Typelevel Code of Conduct](http://typelevel.org/conduct) for specific examples of harassing behavior that are not tolerated.

## Copyright and License

Code and documentation copyright (c) 2017-2019 [ISCPIF - CNRS](http://iscpif.fr). Code released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/multivacplatform/multivac-fakenews/blob/master/LICENSE).