This project is a joint work done with:
About
The motivation of this project has been to study how Fake news spread and whether we were able to create an epidemic SI model to recreate it.
This study was done as an assignment for the subject called Complex and Social Networks (CSN) for Facultat d’Informatica de Barcelona at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (FIB - UPC). This subject is from the Master in Innovation and Research in Informatics at said university.
Date
- From: December of 2018
- To: 18th of January, 2019
Study report
You can find the report of the project here.
Code
You can find all the code in this repo.
Dataset used
The dataset has been obtained from here, the 06/01/2019 (dd/mm/yyyy). More specifically, we have used the Politifacts dataset, and the files we have picked contain information about:
- A User-User network that relates users that are connected.
- A News-User network that relates which news have been shared by which users.
It is part of a research project called FakeNewsTracker to detect Fake News. Check it out.