| Challenge: | Parody is a figurative device used to imitate an entity for comedic or critical purposes. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset of tweets from real politicians and their corresponding parody accounts to run supervised machine learning models for automatic classification. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models predict political parody tweets with 90% accuracy . they also identify the markers of parody through a linguistic analysis . |
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