Data Sceptic has a couple podcast and some of the code is open source. https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2018/algorithmic-detection-of-fake-news
Thanks Vincent Davis 720-301-3003 *Want to get a hold of me?* *SMS: awesome.phone: ok...* *email: bad!* On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:39 PM Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote: > On 18/07/2020 6:16 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-07-17, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:02:15 -0000 (UTC), Gazu <g...@freoeo.net> > declaimed > >> the following: > >> > >>> Hey Guys I am new to python and i am building a fake news detection > >>> system ... > >> I suspect that, if anyone had done this already, it would likely be > >> found on some source code archive (github?) -- and you'd just be > >> duplicating the effort. > >> > >> Essentially, since the core of this functionality depends upon the > >> algorithm, YOU will have to develop the algorithm. > > Or he could do something easier like eliminating hunger, war and > > Covid-19. > > Or like changing culture to give more weight to education, integrity > etc. We need systems to automatically identify fake news and educate > believers. News consumers have to do it. > > News consumers need a system where they can go to check news items to > see if they are credible. Without the cooperation of news conduits - to > label news items with the source - that will be difficult. > > However, that doesn't mean the crowd can't check credibility. So, > culture change is needed. No-one wants to be outed as a fake news source. > > Here's a project. Build an automatic news aggregation site which > collects all news in two pages per news item. Page 1 for the item and > page 2 for the crowd credibility assessment and naming of the apparent > source. Should work somewhat like Wikipedia. Except editors for page 2 > would need a threshold score for being correct. Everyone can criticise > but you lose points for being on the wrong side of history. > > That'll be 2 cents > > Mike > > > > > -- > > Grant > > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
