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Lennywinks/fake-news-detector-german
fake-news-detector-german is a text classification model from Lennywinks. Use it when you need a label for a piece of text. It is set up for transformers. The card lists the license as mit.
This model is a fine-tuned version of distilbert-base-german-cased, specifically optimized for the detection of German-language disinformation and fake news.
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- Task
- Text Classification
- Library
- transformers
- License
- mit
- Model type
- distilbert
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Jan 24, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 21, 2026
- SHA
- d3e2de7b
Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
DistilBERT German Fake News Classifier
This model is a fine-tuned version of distilbert-base-german-cased, specifically optimized for the detection of German-language disinformation and fake news.
Model Description
The model distinguishes between "Real" and "Fake" news articles.
- Model Type: Transformer-based text classification
- Language: German (de)
- Base Model:
distilbert-base-german-cased
Training Data
The model was trained on a consolidated dataset of approximately 387,000 German news articles, sourced from various datasets including:
- GermanFakeNC
- GERMA
- GermanNewsDataset
Example
input_text: "Die Bundesregierung plant eine neue Steuer auf Atemluft ab 2026."
output: "fake"
input_text: "Der Bundestag hat heute über den neuen Haushaltsplan für das kommende Jahr debattiert."
output: "real"
- Task
- Text Classification
- Library
- transformers
- Type
- distilbert
- License
- mit
- Languages
- de
- Created
- Jan 24, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 21, 2026