Fake news in social media is a pressing issue. The goal of this project was to mitigate the impact of fake news by developing recommendation systems that can recommend fact-checking URLs to “guardians”. We created three recommendation systems, improved the GAU model, determined the best recommendation system, and developed a web application that facilitates use of the recommendation systems.

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Creator

• Tian, Alex
• Rus, Alexander N.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-040620-144635

Advisor

• Lee, Kyumin

Year

• 2020

Date created

• 2020-04-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved