CheckMate

JournalismAI 2024 project.

CheckMate.py

Store API keys in file credentials.json with the following structure:

{
    "claimbuster_api_key": "...",
    "google_fact_check_api_key": "..."
}

ClaimsKG Extractor

Install

• Add following to top of claim_extractor/extractors/__init__.py:
  • import collections
  • collections.Callable = collections.abc.Callable
• Add below imports of claim_extractor/extractors/fullfact.py:
  • nltk.download('stopwords')
  • nltk.download('punkt')
  • nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger')
  • nltk.download('wordnet')
• Add try-excepts in claim_extractor/extractors/politifact.py:
  • except AttributeError for both claim.set_claim (line 73) and claim.set_title (line 77)
• Requirements:
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
  • pip install lxml_html_clean
  • pip install nltk
• Install & build Redis database:
  • brew install redis
  • redis-server

Run

• python Exporter.py --website fullfact,politifact,checkyourfact,eufactcheck --maxclaims 10