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title: fake-news-detector
emoji: 🔍
colorFrom: red
colorTo: yellow
sdk: static
pinned: false
license: apache-2.0
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# Fake News Detector

A static web app that analyzes news headlines and articles for credibility, sensationalism, and emotional manipulation.

## Features

- **AI Credibility Classification** — uses `facebook/bart-large-mnli` zero-shot classification with labels: credible news, misleading content, satire, opinion piece, factual reporting
- **Sensationalism Score** — detects clickbait language patterns (0–10)
- **Emotional Language Detection** — flags emotionally charged words (0–10)
- **Source Quality Signals** — checks for quotes, named sources, statistics, and dates
- **Overall Verdict** — Likely Credible / Uncertain / Likely Misleading

## Usage

1. Enter your [Hugging Face API token](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens)
2. Choose **Headline Only** or **Full Article** mode
3. Paste your content and click **Analyze**