Fake-News-Bot

table of contents

1. About our bot
2. Create a bot on Telegram
3. Getting started

About our bot

The purpose of this bot is to check the truthness of the combination of a text and an image from social media, thus it takes a text and an image as inputs, then it passes this inputs to our fact checking model. The output of this bot is a percentage that indicates the possibility that this corresponding news is fake.

Note: We didn't fully implement this bot yet. It's taking inputs, then searches them in google and shows the result to the user.

Create a bot on Telegram

We need to ask telegram to create a new bot on the platform, it's a fairly simple process, you can do so in your telegram app(on windows/linux/android/ios/web) you need to go to botfather which is basically a bot himself that automate the process of creating your bot.

You will need to ask him using the / prefix to start a command, once you start typing it will autocomplete itself, the command you need is /newbot, which will take you to the flow of creating your bot, the bot will prompt you for a name and username for the bot (the username has to be unique), then it will respone with a message like so:

Done! Congratulations on your new bot. You will find it at t.me/{bot-username}. You can now add a description, about section and profile picture for your bot, see /help for a list of commands. By the way, when you've finished creating your cool bot, ping our Bot Support if you want a better username for it. Just make sure the bot is fully operational before you do this.

Use this token to access the HTTP API:
{Your_Token}
Keep your token secure and store it safely, it can be used by anyone to control your bot.

For a description of the Bot API, see this page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

Getting started

First of all we need to create a virtualenv for this project. if you don't have anaconda take a look at this website, otherwise go here

After cloning this repository on your computer, you need to install all of required packages which are listed in requirements.txt. you can install them with following code:

pip install -r requirements.txt

In the next step you should open bot.py file and copy your bot's token which is given by botfather to the Token in line 10.

Now you are ready to run the bot.py file. Remember that if your IP address is from iran, you need to turn on your VPN.

Note: you can run this code on colab by copying the code inside bot.py.