Fake News Detection on WhatsApp – NLP Project

A Flask-based web app that detects fake news shared through WhatsApp-style messages using NLP and machine learning.

🚀 Features

• Detects fake news using Naïve Bayes and Logistic Regression
• Clean, WhatsApp-style front-end using HTML/CSS
• Pretrained model loaded from .pkl file
• Simple UI to paste news messages and get predictions

🧠 ML Techniques

• TF-IDF Vectorization
• Naïve Bayes & Logistic Regression
• SMOTE for handling data imbalance
• Accuracy, precision, recall metrics

💻 Tech Stack

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
• Backend: Python, Flask
• ML: scikit-learn, pandas, nltk
• Database: SQLite (optional)