An effort to tackle one of the most pressing problems faced by the world currently: fake news.

Introduction

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that has resulted in an ongoing pandemic. The disease was first identified in Wuhan, China, and the first case was identified in December 2019. As of 21st May, 2021, more than 160 million cases have been reported across 180 countries and territories. The sheer scale of this pandemic has led to myriad problems for the current generation. One of the acute problems that I have come across is the circulation of bogus news articles and in today’s world, spurious news articles can cause panic and mass hysteria. I realized the gravity of this problem and decided to base my next machine learning project on resolving this issue.

This my second article on the Fake News Classifier Project that will elaborate on the steps needed to deploy the trained SVM classifier as a web application on Heroku using the Flask framework. Those who haven’t read my 1st article can do so via the following link.

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