hoax

Inspiration

Trump Possibility to play with ML

What it does

It rates a website based on its URL and gives the result on the scale from 0 to 10 on how fake it is. 0 means totally fake and 10 means totally true.

How we built it

By learning Javascript from scratch with the help of awesome mentors and Google.

Challenges we ran into

Javascript.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Drinking 20 cups of coffee in 24h. Getting minimum viable product out. Sticking with the project despite spending 95% of the hackathon learning new tech and debugging.

What we learned

Javascript, found out about glitch.me, html, Cloud AutoML, APIs.

What's next for hoax

1) integrate the scraper 2) integrate Cloud AutoML 3) make it work well in one subcategory 4) make it work well in several subcategories 5) detect the truthfulness of the facts in the news article 6) IPO

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript
• ml