Skip to content

Bot made for Facebook to produce fake news based on existing news. The idea is to raise awareness about fake news and its impact.

License

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

efestus-usp/FallaxBot

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

16 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation


Logo

FallaxBot

Bot made for Facebook to produce fake news based on existing news.

Authors: Breno Lívio, brenoslivio

Explore the docs »

Table of Contents

  1. About The Project
  2. Getting Started
  3. License
  4. Acknowledgements

About The Project

FallaxBot was a little project made for the group efestus, which discusses the all kinds of technology implications for society. This bot had the intent to contribute with idea of the group, generating fake news to raise awareness about this problem.

The news were generated using existing tech news, using tools like CoGrOO to deal with brazilian portuguese morphological synthax. An image is generated with the text remembering link for news posted on Facebook.

The project is deactivated but the posts were generated on this Facebook page.

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

Prerequisites

Python 3.6 or greater.

Installation

  1. Clone the repo
    git clone https://github.com/efestus-usp/FallaxBot.git

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Acknowledgements

About

Bot made for Facebook to produce fake news based on existing news. The idea is to raise awareness about fake news and its impact.

Topics

Resources

License

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

 
 
 

Languages