Inspiration
We were inspired by the events in Ukraine and noticed the large amount of misinformation and fake news. We believe that this will help promote support for Ukraine.
What it does
We decided to help combat this by creating a website that can highlight factually correct articles and allows users to avoid fake ones, with examples articles related to the crisis.
How we built it
We used Flask to build the website after initially trying to use Django. Basic HTML and CSS were used to build the front end.
Challenges we ran into
Django was proving to be too time consuming and heavy for the task. Switching to Flask was a bit of a challenge but saved time in the end.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud to create something that we think will help to highlight the problems that misinformation can cause.
What we learned
We hadn't used Flask before and had limited experience with HTML and CSS.
What's next for Untitled
We plan to expand the number of websites crawled. This will involve adding sources and other current affairs. This should expand the website's ability to help combat misinformation and reduce biases.
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