In the year 2027, misinformation has reached epidemic levels across India’s digital platforms. From viral political rumors to fake health advisories, millions of posts spread daily, blurring the line between fact and fiction.

The Ministry of Digital Trust (MDT) has launched Project *TruthLens*, a national challenge to develop an AI system capable of identifying fake news from real ones, based solely on textual content, even when the data is messy, noisy, and incomplete.

As a data scientist on the TruthLens team, your task is to build a model that predicts whether a given article or social media post is Fake or Real.

*But beware, the data you’ve received has been scraped from multiple sources.*