NLP for fake news

[ricknta (Rick N)]

Yes I noticed it disappeared recently, but I included his dataset in my github repo. Here’s the repo with an initial nb and the dataset: GitHub - ricknta/fake-news: Simple binary classifier for fake news articles using fastai

I did run a model using his ds and posted some observations about it:

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Thanks Jeremy, that makes sense, so I went back and read more text samples, since I recalled seeing some where the source was mentioned. There’s no field for the article source, and the model only sees the article text, so I looked for the news source (or something related) showing up in the text. Turns out there aren’t many of those - maybe 5%. Most are “clean” in not having any markers that I could see. But I looked deeper into the dataset heritage and it was (in my opinion) a bit flawed, …