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<span class="na">!pip uninstall -y mxnet</span>
<span class="na">!pip install mxnet-cu100==1.4.0.post0</span>
</div></code></pre><p>If you do not wish to train on GPU or are running it on your computer, you can ignore the last two lines</p><h3>Downloading the Dataset</h3><pre><code><div class="highlight"><span></span><span class="nt">!wget</span><span class="na"> -q &quot;https</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nc">//github.com/joolsa/fake_real_news_dataset/raw/master/fake_or_real_news.csv.zip&quot;</span>