Some Like It Hoax

Abstract

1. Introduction

Code for the paper _Some Like it Hoax: Identifying Fake News in Social Networks_ (2017) by Eugenio Tacchini, Gabriele Ballarin, Marco L. Della Vedova, Stefano Moret and Luca De Alfaro

2. Objective

Code for the paper "Some Like it Hoax: Automated Fake News Detection in Social Networks" by E.Tacchini, G.Ballarin, M.L.Della Vedova, S.Moret and L.De Alfaro (2017)

This project demonstrates how Jupyter Notebook can be applied to a real-world AI & Machine Learning problem.

4. Technology Stack

5. System Requirements

General requirements for this technology stack — check the README for exact versions.

• Python 3.8 or later with Jupyter Notebook / JupyterLab (or Google Colab)
• pip for dependencies
• Git (to clone the repository)

6. Installation & Setup

git clone https://github.com/gabll/some-like-it-hoax.git
cd some-like-it-hoax

Full setup instructions are in the project README.

7. Future Enhancements

Suggested extensions you can add to make this your own project.

• Deploy the model as a web app with Streamlit, Flask or FastAPI
• Compare against an additional model and report the metric difference
• Add explainability (SHAP / Grad-CAM)

8. Viva / Review Questions

Common questions examiners ask for projects in this domain.

1. What dataset does the project use and how was it pre-processed?
2. Which algorithm / model architecture is used and why was it chosen over alternatives?
3. How are training and testing data split, and how is overfitting avoided?
4. Which evaluation metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1) are reported and what do they mean here?
5. How would you deploy this model for real users?

9. Source Code & License

This project is developed by gabll and published on GitHub under the MIT License. Please follow the license terms and credit the original author when you use or modify this code.