News search

News search engine with fake news detection implemented in Python using micro web framework Flask.

Online demo

https://search-news.herokuapp.com/

Note: it may take a few seconds to deploy

Functionality

• Web crawling: app can download and validate all articles from the given domains
• Article indexing: bag-of-words, inverse document frequency, SVD and low rank approximation
• Fake news detection: articles are classified using my Fake news detector python package

Preview

Search results:

Example analysis (real news):

Example analysis (watch out):

Technologies used

Frontend:

• Bootstrap
• JS, jQuery

Backend:

• Python
• Flask
• Template engine: Jinja