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title: VeraCT Scan News Verification System |
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emoji: 🔍 |
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sdk: streamlit |
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sdk_version: 1.31.1 |
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app_file: client.py |
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pinned: false |
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# VeraCT Scan News Verification System |
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AI-powered news verification tool that checks if news headlines and content are truthful based on reliable sources. |
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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. |
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## 🚀 Key Features |
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- ✅ **Headline & Content Verification** using LLM + multi-source matching |
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- 🌐 **Reliable Domain Detection** from over 600+ trusted sources |
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- 🧠 **LLM Verdict Generation** (VERIFIED, LIKELY FAKE, or REQUIRES MORE VERIFICATION) |
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- 🔍 **Entity Extraction** with spaCy (ORG, PERSON, EVENT, etc.) |
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- 🛡️ **Cross-checking** with [SearchAPI](https://www.searchapi.io/) and [Tavily](https://www.tavily.com/) |
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- 🔐 **.env-based API Key Security** |
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- 🧪 API Testing endpoints for dev setup |
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## 🧩 Tech Stack |
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- **Python 3.10+** |
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- **FastAPI** |
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- **LangChain + Groq LLaMA-4** |
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- **spaCy (NER & NLP)** |
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- **SearchAPI + Tavily** |
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- **Pydantic + CORS middleware** |
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- **Uvicorn (ASGI server)** |
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- ## 🛡️ License |
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This project is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE). |
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## ⚙️ Setup Instructions |
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### 1. Clone the repository |
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```bash |
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git clone https://github.com/Abdulhameed556/VeraCT_Scan-like_news_verification_system_1.git |
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cd VeraCT_Scan-like_News_Verification_System |
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