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Global Multilingual Covid-19 Online News Narrative Dataset Now Updating

Our global multilingual Covid-19 online news narratives dataset that includes the URLs and titles of worldwide news coverage about the…

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A New Dataset For Exploring The Global Multilingual Covid-19 Online News Narrative

UPDATE (4/26/2020): Now updating daily! How has Covid-19 been covered around the world and how does that coverage compare to…

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Brookings: Television As Data: Opening The Internet Archive’s Two Decade Archive Of Global Television News Spanning 50 Countries To Journalists & Scholars Through AI, Analytics, Search & Visualization

Kalev spoke at the Brookings Institution this afternoon, surveying GDELT's various datasets and especially its new collaborations with the Internet…

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November Roundup Of Television News Tools & Datasets

In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, we've been rolling out a flood of new tools and datasets…

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The Internet Archive's TV News Archive Turns 10: A Look Back At A Decade Of Pioneering Collaboration Reimagining Media Research

The Internet Archive's Television News Archive was launched to the public ten years ago today and GDELT and its founder…

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Identifying Trending Television News Narratives In Realtime With The GCP Timeseries Insights API & Video AI API

Over nearly a decade, GDELT has been collaborating with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to explore how advanced non-consumptive computational…

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GSG Embeddings + GKG + BigQuery + Tensorflow Embedding Projector = Visualizing The Covid-19 Vaccine News Landscape

What would it look like to visualize a day of worldwide online news coverage about a given topic, using document-level…

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Fact Checking The News In Realtime: Experiments Using Universal Sentence Encoder Embeddings To Scan News For Fact Check Claims

Following yesterday's experiments on document-level embeddings using the Universal Sentence Encoder family, we wanted to explore how well the same…

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Identifying Breaking News Stories Across The World With Google’s Timeseries Insights API

GDELT today encompasses more than 8.4 trillion datapoints spanning global events and narratives in 152 languages across text, television, radio…

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Visualizing The Global Covid-19 "Infodemic": Using Maps, Charts And Timelines To Visualize The Global Media Narrative

Through the Media-Data Research Consortium (M-DRC)'s Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant “Quantifying the COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative Through TV…

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Searching The Global Quotation Graph For Statements Regarding Vaccine Efficacy Against Covid-19 Variants

What are health officials, doctors, policymakers and others saying about vaccine efficacy against the new Covid-19 vaccine variants? Understanding the…

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A Vision For A Multidisciplinary Covid-19 Communication & Behavioral Research Initiative And Incubator To Combat Misinformation

What might it look like to construct a research initiative and incubator that would support collaborative multidisciplinary multimodal research into…

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Evaluating The "Readability" Of Online COVID-19 News Coverage

Using our massive new dataset of readability scores of worldwide English language news coverage of 2020, how might we evaluate…

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Credibility Coalition Talk Today: Combatting Misinformation And Lending Context Through GDELT’s Global Open News Annotation Datasets

Kalev will be speaking later today to the Credibility Coalition next week titled "Combatting Misinformation And Lending Context Through GDELT’s Global…

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Credibility Coalition: Combatting Misinformation And Lending Context Through GDELT’s Global Open News Annotation Datasets

Kalev will be giving a talk to the Credibility Coalition next week titled "Combatting Misinformation And Lending Context Through GDELT’s…

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Using Google's Cloud Vision API To Contextualize An Entire News Broadcast Through Reverse Image Search

Google Cloud Vision API's "Web Entities" feature performs what amounts to a reverse image search across the open web, accepting…

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A Set Of Massive New Datasets For Cataloging Mask Appearances On Television News

As nations try to navigate the public health complexities of encouraging mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic, a key question…

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Comparing COVID-19 Through Mediums: Twitter, Online News And Google Trends

How did the rise of COVID-19 coverage look like through Twitter, online news and Google Trends? The timeline below shows…

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Quantifying The COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative Through TV & Radio News Analysis

We are tremendously excited to announce that the Media-Data Research Consortium (M-DRC), whom GDELT has been working closely with to…

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TFIDF Using BigQuery + Cloud Video AI To Chronicle Visual Trends In CNN Coverage In Covid-19

How has CNN's visual narrative changed over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic? One of the metrics we track in…

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We're Talking Less And Less About "The Elderly" And Covid-19

As Covid-19 spread to the US, an early narrative from public health officials was that it affected primarily "the elderly"…

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Announcing A Massive New Geographic News Database Of The Locations Mentioned In Covid-19 News Coverage

Last month we created a map of the top locations on earth most commonly mentioned in worldwide online news coverage…

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Covid-19 Television And Online News Snippet Datasets Available In BigQuery

To help researchers explore the media narratives around the Covid-19 pandemic, we've produced two datasets consisting of brief snippets of…

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Tracing The Evolution Of The US Government's Covid-19 Narrative: From Fauci's 'Miniscule' Risk To 'Social Distancing'

One of the fascinating things we're hoping to see researchers explore with our new Covid-19 online news dataset are explorations…