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title: VeraCT Scan News Verification System
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sdk: streamlit
sdk_version: 1.31.1
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VeraCT Scan News Verification System
AI-powered news verification tool that checks if news headlines and content are truthful based on reliable sources.
A powerful, AI-enhanced news verification API that analyzes the credibility of news content by cross-referencing reliable sources, extracting entities, and applying reasoning from large language models. Built with FastAPI, LangChain, Groq's LLaMA-4 model, spaCy, and multiple real-time search APIs.
🚀 Key Features
- ✅ Headline & Content Verification using LLM + multi-source matching
- 🌐 Reliable Domain Detection from over 600+ trusted sources
- 🧠 LLM Verdict Generation (VERIFIED, LIKELY FAKE, or REQUIRES MORE VERIFICATION)
- 🔍 Entity Extraction with spaCy (ORG, PERSON, EVENT, etc.)
- 🛡️ Cross-checking with SearchAPI and Tavily
- 🔐 .env-based API Key Security
- 🧪 API Testing endpoints for dev setup
🧩 Tech Stack
Python 3.10+
FastAPI
LangChain + Groq LLaMA-4
spaCy (NER & NLP)
SearchAPI + Tavily
Pydantic + CORS middleware
Uvicorn (ASGI server)
🛡️ License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
⚙️ Setup Instructions
1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Abdulhameed556/VeraCT_Scan-like_news_verification_system_1.git
cd VeraCT_Scan-like_News_Verification_System