Fake news detection

Welcome to our repository for our CMPE255 - data mining Final project. Our team is Soumyendra Shrivastava, Siddhant Sancheti, Wesley Shih.

Ever since Donald Trump started his presidential journey, fake news has been on the rise. not real news but fake news has taken the spot light in media nowadays. Especially with Trump supports, they read news that are not true to the source and they choose to believe it without a single doubt. Fake news is causing a lot of misinformation to be spread and causing a disturburance in our society.

We wanted to tackle this issue with Fakenews. We want to take what we learnd from this data mining class and make a project that can detect fake news. Use it to tell the truth.