Faux is a tool aimed to reduce misinformation along the web. It analyzes texts and headlines to categorize them as fake news, clickbait articles or seemingly-normal-things.
We've lately seen an increase in misleading information presented as true in the media. This project seeks an easy-access to reliable news and sources for everyone, no matter their previous knowledge or background.
Faux takes news and headlines as input and applies heuristics to classify them. Being a cloud service, it's constantly being updated and refined to achieve the best possible outcome.
- Python 3.8+.
Managed with Poetry, check out pyproject.toml.
Poetry will manage and install dependencies, ensuring that your Faux built is ready to use. According to the official Poetry documentation, install with:
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python -
Clone this repository and run:
cd faux
poetry install
This will install all dependencies.
You can check the syntax of every .py file under src with:
poetry shell
inv check
Tests are located int test and we use Pytest to run them.
You can run them locally with:
inv test
Or you can run them inside a Docker container with:
inv docker
Feel free to read a bit more about the project: