README.md

Fake News Detection

Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity. It negatively affects people's opinions and poses a threat to our society, economy and politics.

This project aims to sort out fake news from real information using Machine Learning

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Model Used: Logistic Regression

Packages Used: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, NLTK

Accuracy:

- 97.9% for testing data

- 98.6% for training data

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