Building a Fake News Classifier Using Natural Language Processing

Nathan Gunawan
Towards Data Science
10 min readJul 17, 2019

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Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Look, I’m not here to pick sides. Donald Trump is merely my scape-goat for my using of the term “fake news”, but whether or not you’re a Republican or Democrat, social-media junkie or forested hermit, you have to admit that our rapidly digitalizing, polarized world is running into a certain problem: fake news. Whether it’s Facebook and the whole spectrum of monolithic…

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