This study ia an attempt to detect toxic fake news on social media and thereby reduce the amount of time spent examining all the categories of fake news which are not toxic.

#Prerequisites What things you need to install the software and how to install them:

Python 3.6

This setup requires that your machine has python 3.6 installed on it. you can refer to this url https://www.python.org/downloads/ to download python. Once you have python downloaded and installed, you will need to setup PATH variables (if you want to run python program directly, detail instructions are below in how to run software section).

To do that check this: https://www.pythoncentral.io/add-python-to-path-python-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/. Setting up PATH variable is optional as you can also run program without it and more instruction are given below on this topic.

Second and easier option is to download anaconda and use its anaconda prompt to run the commands. To install anaconda check this url https://www.anaconda.com/download/

You will also need to download and install below 3 packages after you install either python or anaconda from the steps above **Sklearn (scikit-learn) numpy scipy **

if you have chosen to install python 3.6 then run below commands in command prompt/terminal to install these packages pip install -U scikit-learn pip install numpy pip install scipy

if you have chosen to install anaconda then run below commands in anaconda prompt to install these packages conda install -c scikit-learn conda install -c anaconda numpy conda install -c anaconda scipy