HAhappy-go-lucky·Dec 3, 2016Submission
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bs-detector
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bs-detector
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6 sourcesChecking against a PR-curated list:
https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector/blob/master/chrome...
In Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning pluginTo re-iterate what ManlyBread wrote above, the BS Detector tool uses a fixed list [1] of domains that are deemed to convey 'fake news'; there is no neural network / algorithm / heuristics being used in the tool. Just a blacklist with several categories, curated by humans.
For example:
{"url": "wikileaks.org", "type": "rumors"},
[1] https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector/blob/master/chrome...
In “Fake News” dataset on KaggleThis data was collected using a recently developed tool called the BS Detector [0] which aims to automatically classify fake news. As the labels have not been validated by humans, I question how much utility this will have for developing additional fake news detection systems. Any model trained on this data is really just learning the parameters of the BS Detector, not ground truth fake news.
[0] https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector
In “Fake News” dataset on KaggleFollowing the link, here's the source: https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector/blob/master/chrome...
As per the author of the dataset on kaggle:
contains text and metadata scraped from 244 websites
tagged as "bullshit" here by the BS Detector Chrome Extension
by Daniel Sieradski. Warning: I did not modify the list
of news sources from the BS Detector so as not to introduce
my (useless) layer of bias
In “Fake News” dataset on KaggleChrome extension warns users about questionable news sources
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