Author: Kalev Leetaru
Video: A 12-Year Look At @realDonaldTrump
Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter on Jan. 8, bringing to an end to perhaps the world’s most prolific…
Video: Fox News Has Covered Portland 6.7 Times More Than CNN And MSNBC Combined This Year
The timeline below shows the total number of mentions of Portland, Oregon on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since the start of…
Video: "Ask Your Doctor": How Medical Television Commercials Faded In The Early Pandemic
The timeline below tracks the seconds of daily airtime in which the phrase "ask your doctor" is visible in the…
Video: Tracing #StopTheSteal, #BLM, #Trump, #Biden And Other 2020 Hashtags On Twitter
Using data from Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media, a series of popular hashtags are traced on Twitter from Feb….
The Three Phases Of Covid-19 Television News Coverage: Social Distancing To Masking To Vaccines
Television news coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic can be seen to follow three distinct stages, emphasizing social distancing at the…
Television Versus Online News Coverage Of Vaccines
How has television news coverage of Covid-19 vaccines compared with online coverage? The timeline below shows the percentage of airtime across CNN,…
CNN Pivots Back To Pandemic Dashboard After Inauguration
CNN's Covid-19 dashboard has become a barometer for tracking how it weighs the pandemic vis-a-vis other breaking stories of the…
"Ask Your Doctor": How Medical Television Commercials Faded In The Early Pandemic
The timeline below tracks the seconds of daily airtime in which the phrase "ask your doctor" is visible in the onscreen text….
Fox News Barely Mentions QAnon
QAnon was first mentioned on television news in August 2018, but really took off in July 2020. CNN and MSNBC have each…
Trump Remains Front And Center On Television News
Despite a week and a half as a former president and three weeks without his Twitter account, Donald Trump remains…
Tracing #StopTheSteal, #BLM, #Trump, #Biden And Other 2020 Hashtags On Twitter
The graphs below trace select Twitter hashtags using data from Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media, tracing the percentage of daily…
Tracking Twitter's Growth: Did Trump Ban Cause A Dip?
As COVID-19 began sweeping across the world last spring, Twitter experienced phenomenal growth with much of the planet’s population confined…
Tracking The Rise Of Open Graph Image (OG:IMAGE) Metadata Tags Using The GEMG
Using the Global Embedded Metadata Graph (GEMG), we can track the evolution of specific metadata fields over time. With just…
Apple: A Day In The Life Of Your Data
Apple's "A Day In The Life Of Your Data" released today as part of its Data Privacy Day cites Kalev's…
Fox News Has Covered Portland 6.7 Times More Than CNN And MSNBC Combined This Month
A look at how Fox News has covered Portland compared to its peers. Read The Full Article.
Trump's Tweets Finally Fade From Television News
President Trump's tweets have been a steady fixture on television news, with CNN, MSNBC and Fox News each devoting more…
MediaWell: The Challenge Of Debunking Narratives: How TV News Failed On Trump's Claims Of Electoral Fraud
First Draft's Claire Wardle writes about how television news covered Trump's elections claims and references their work using our television…
Using The Global Quotation Graph To Track Public Statements About Mis/Disinformation
How might we use the Global Quotation Graph to track global public commentary about mis/disinformation? In short, to compile a list…
Research At Archives Scale: How The Cloud Makes Petascale Analysis Trivial
It is remarkable that in an era in which petabytes have become commoditized, petascale analyses still drive fear into the…
Visualizing Twitter's Evolution Jan 2012 – Jan 2021 And A Look At The Impacts Of Covid-19 & Election 2020
In March 2019 we published an in-depth exploration of Twitter's evolution 2012-2018 and followed it up that November with a…
Comparing @realDonaldTrump Tweets To 1% Stream Tweets Mentioning Him
To what degree was Twitterverse discussion about Donald Trump driven by the volume of his own tweeting? Did increased @realDonaldTrump…
A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How We Think About Master File Formats And Timestamping
How do we internally store the myriad datasets that arrive to us each day, what file formats do we use…
Video: Google Developers Program: Between The Brackets
Kalev was the inaugural guest of the new Google Developers Program North America "Between The Brackets" show today! For those…
The Failure Of Private Health Services: COVID-19 Induced Crises In Low- And Middle-Income Country (LMIC) Health Systems
This paper examines Covid-19 induced impacts on the health sector: For decades, governments and development partners promoted neoliberal policies in…