The Outbreak — Detecting fake Viral News, automatically.

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The Outbreak is a tool designed to automatically identify viral news, before they go viral. Using the Outbreak, we detect just the ones that are getting viral, and send them to a human to evaluate if this is a fake or accurate article. Using this, we can train the algorithm to do predictive analysis. The commonality of this fake articles is that they generate strong emotional responses. This can be detected using Google Cloud NLP API or Watson API. Combined with facebook reactions data, we have better tools then just one year ago.