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. 2023 Mar 27;9(4):77. doi: 10.3390/jimaging9040077
Algorithm 1 News similarity evaluation using cosine distance.

Input: news information n, web scraping result w, language of the search l.

Output: similarity estimation for the news pair.

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    function cosine_distance_news_similarity(n,w,l)

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         if type(w)isnottext then

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             news_pair_similarity = 0

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         end if

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         if [l(“fake”),l(“false”),l(“lie”)]∈w then

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              news_pair_similarity = 0

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         end if

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         news_pair_similarity=cosine_distance(mBERT(n),mBERT(w))

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         return news_pair_similarity

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    end function