Linguistic Markers of Deception in Computer-Mediated Communication: An Analysis of Politicians' Tweets
Journal: Repozitorij Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu' at University of Zagreb (University of Zagreb)
Year: 2018

The aim of this master‘s thesis was to examine the lies of English-speaking politicians by determining whether relevant scientific data on deception applies to the statements they communicated on social media. Specifically, the goal was to analyse the studies on deception and see if one could make use of the data to detect deception in their messages. In addition to set format of this work, the reason for concentrating solely on messages transmitted via website such as Twitter is its popularity,