IIT Dharwad develop mobile application to detect fake news

IIT Dharwad students develop a mobile application to detect fake news.

A group of students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad has developed a mobile application to identify whether the news floating around is fake or real. The application developed by the students can be installed on a mobile phone, and the user can upload the news they receive on social media groups. Within a few seconds, the application will show whether the news is fake or real. Also, if it turns out to be fake, the app gives information about the right news.

The application will help people to identify the credibility of the news making rounds in social media. Without quoting sources, some miscreants are engaged in circulating fake news.

IIT Dharwad student Aman Singal and his friends then decided to develop an applications that differentiates real from fake. The app will be launched in two months and will help curtail the spread of wrong information.” In its statement, IIT Dharwad said that even though the students have been away due to the coronavirus pandemic since March 2020, “it is heartening to see that a team of our students continued their work on developing a fake news alert application.” “The application is under development and the final product will be formally launched in the days to come. We congratulate the team on taking up the constructive work and are committed to supporting all research and development, and innovation attempts,” it added.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Dharwad is an autonomous premier institute founded by the MHRD in 2016 under the mentorship of IIT Bombay. Currently, the Institute offers a total of nine courses via eight departments in the stream of Science and Technology at UG, PG and PhD level. 

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