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title: VeraCT Scan News Verification System
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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.

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## 🚀 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](https://www.searchapi.io/) and [Tavily](https://www.tavily.com/)
- 🔐 **.env-based API Key Security**
- 🧪 API Testing endpoints for dev setup

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## 🧩 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](LICENSE).

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## ⚙️ Setup Instructions

### 1. Clone the repository

```bash
git clone https://github.com/Abdulhameed556/VeraCT_Scan-like_news_verification_system_1.git
cd VeraCT_Scan-like_News_Verification_System