TNT : Troll or Not Troll
Problem statement The problem we try to address in this project is to classify a tweet as a either a Troll or an Organic Tweet . So let's get started by defining what we define both of them. Troll We define troll as a opinion manipulating tweet that is posted by a malicious user for the sole intention of swinging the election results in favor or against a particular party. Organic Tweet? Any tweet that is not a troll is a genuine / generic of organic tweet. Motivation There are many popular cases where people are paid to make a post on public forums in order to change opinions of people in favour or against a particular party. One such popular example is Russian Troll Factory . In this case many people were paid to tweet on the subject of US Presidential Election 2016 which were about to happen at that time. We wanted to see if we can classify if a particular tweet as a paid opinion manipulating tweet or not. Data Col...