Housing #RealHack

Sumit Raj

Team:- Codepreneur

Problem Statement 3

Discover the truth of a tweet

Solution

• Get information from trusted sources
• Weightage for each source trustworthiness
• Negative score for rumour related content
• If score is >70% categorize as Truth else False

Alexa Ranking wrt Popularity & User Engagement

• Times of India (Rank 10)
• NDTV (Rank 27)
• IndiaToday (Rank 59)
• IBNLive (Rank 71)
• TheHindu (Rank 89)
• IndianExpress (Rank 94)
• Hindustan Times (Rank 130)
• Telegraph (Rank 1288)

Truth Finder Flow Diagram

Technologies Used

• Python
• Flask
• Yahoo BOSS API
• Frontend Technologies
• Heroku Platform