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| Challenge: | FRAPPE is a linguistic analysis, persuasion, and propaganda-based news analysis system that analyzes articles for genre, framings, and persulasion techniques. |
| Approach: | They propose a FRAming, Persuasion, and Propaganda Explorer system that analyzes articles for genre, framings, and use of persuation techniques. |
| Outcome: | FRAPPE analyzes articles for genre, framings, and use of persuasion techniques . it also draws comparisons between persulasion and framping strategies adopted by a diverse pool of news outlets and countries across multiple languages for different topics . |
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