Pheme: Smart News App(UnScript'19 Hackathon Winner)

With the rise of fast and readily accessible information through the internet, one issue of major concern has been the verification of the veracity of claims being made. To combat the issue of "fake news", Me and my team of 4 developed an app that leveraged the power of natural language processing to make a chatbot centered app. The chatbot aimed to understand a user's query, detect if the query was "fake news", find relevant news about the topic from a set of trusted sources and post an abstract summary from the articles of the most relevant source. The project was developed using React Native for the app development, Keras for fake news detection, an API for retrieving news articles, and Flask for API development.