Fake News Detection Transformer Models

Tools for detecting and classifying false, misleading, or unverified news articles and claims using transformers and NLP models. Does NOT include general text classification, stance detection, or misinformation prevention frameworks without a news/claim verification focus.

There are 26 fake news detection models tracked. The highest-rated is Md-Emon-Hasan/InformaTruth at 39/100 with 1 stars.

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#	Model	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	Md-Emon-Hasan/InformaTruth Fine-tuned roberta-base classifier on the LIAR dataset. Aaccepts multiple...	39	Emerging	1	Jupyter Notebook
2	abhilashreddys/Fake-News-Article Detecting fake news articles by analyzing patterns in writing.	36	Emerging	10	Jupyter Notebook
3	cleopatra-itn/claim_detection Code for tasks in the paper "Check\_square at CheckThat! 2020: Claim...	31	Emerging	2	Python
4	Someshog/greenwashing-detection-app An AI-powered Streamlit web app to detect greenwashing in sustainability...	30	Emerging	1	Python
5	D1ffic00lt/ai-pastproof PastProof AI – ML core for automated fact-checking: ingests raw text, finds...	30	Emerging	1	Python
6	othmanelhoufi/LM-for-FactChecking An automated solution for fact-checking using available claims and fake-news...	27	Experimental	13	Python
7	MBadriNarayanan/ClickbaitClassification Classifying clickbaits: articles with potentially misleading titles, using a...	24	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
8	elip06/covid19-fact-checking A fact-checking system of short to medium-sized documents on the topic of COVID-19	23	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
9	melove297/reddit-factuality-detection 🧐 Detect factual reliability in Reddit posts using machine learning with...	21	Experimental	—	Python
10	ShehabMagdy101/Fake-News-Sentiment-Detection-System-using-NLP-and-Transformers Classify Fake News Articles Using DistilBert and Sequential Models Like RNN,...	18	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
11	nidhip1611/NewsScope Schema-grounded news claim extraction with LLaMA 3.1 + LoRA (89.4% accuracy)	17	Experimental	—	Python
12	charliemking/reddit-factuality-detection Fact-checking Reddit posts with machine learning: comparing traditional and...	17	Experimental	—	Python
13	chriskal96/claimer-detection Claimer Detection using Natural Language Processing Models	17	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
14	anitaxokojie/Fake-news-detection Hybrid fake news classifier combining transformer embeddings with...	17	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
15	madboy482/FakeNewsDetection A deep learning-based fake news detection system leveraging BERT and...	13	Experimental	—	Python
16	nicolas-len/covid19-fake-news-detector Deep learning NLP pipeline for COVID-19 fake news detection using Stella...	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
17	Chubek/clickbait-generator Clickbait Generator Training Notebook	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
18	johnson00111/fake-news-detection NLP fake news classification comparing 9 models (SVM, XGBoost, LightGBM,...	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
19	MujahidMalik7/fake-news-detection-experiments Experiments with fake news detection using transformer models and classical...	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
20	cleopatra-itn/TIB_VA_MediaEval_FakeNews Code for FakeNews MediaEval 2020 Task:...	12	Experimental	1	Python
21	ogozcelik/simid-misinformation-detection Codebase for SiMiD model	11	Experimental	—	Python
22	yuriihavrylko/disinform-detection-playground A project aimed at disinformation detection by using bert model trained on...	11	Experimental	3	Python
23	pmikluszka/recan-veracity-classification ReCAN model implementation for claim veracity classification task.	11	Experimental	—	Python
24	HandcartCactus/fakeonion Fake Onion Headlines	11	Experimental	—	Python
25	SevilayMuni/Flask-App-Roberta-Detect-News Flask Deployment: RoBERTa-Unreliable News Detection App	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
26	Kareem404/arabic-news-credibility-checker An Arabic News Credibility Checking platform that involved finetuning an...	10	Experimental	1	Python