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Yeah so a linguist already looked at this

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-linguist-helped-catch-the...

> “What’s been done so far is not scientific and simply silly,” he said.

People. Don't get too drunk on your own kool-aid. Do I need to write an op ed that there are adults in the room :P ?

This is a very quick dismissal, when the article itself mentions this! It's entire purpose is to show off their neat library, not to give a substantive prediction on who the author is.

The author’s purpose is to demonstrate how to do this in R, and is upfront on how this is purely for academic exercise since he is comparing an op-ed to tweets. Much of the article is dedicated to analyzing how the analysis failed (it ends up recommending that Trump wrote it largely because of the presence of Russia in both that twitter account and the op-Ed)

I still recommend giving the article a good scan.

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