Author: Kalev Leetaru
Twitter Hacking Exposes More Than One Company's Vulnerability
On Wednesday the world was reminded just how precarious and fragile our modern centralized web has become when a Twitter…
Social Media Censors Government – Muzzling Democracy Itself
After years of enforcing their “community guidelines” and “acceptable speech” rules against the general public, this has been the year…
A Look At Some Of The First Television News Coverage Of The Covid-19 Outbreak
Before it was known as Covid-19 or even just a "coronavirus", the viral outbreak that would go on to become…
DataBricks: How To Extract Market Drivers At Scale Using Alternative Data
An analysis of Impossible Meat news coverage using NLP of GDELT coverage. Read The Full Article.
AGILE 2020: Tracking Hurricane Dorian In GDELT And Twitter
This paper by researchers at the University of Florida and George Mason University published in the Proceedings of the 23rd…
Bloomberg News Among First To Cover Covid-19 Pandemic
Bloomberg news was among the first channels to report on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. On Jan. 5…
Personal Protective Equipment On Evening TV News At Highest Levels Of Decade
This timeline tracks depictions of personal protective equipment on ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts over the past decade,…
Beach Imagery Increases In Covid-19 Era On CNN
The timeline below shows how often imagery of beaches has been depicted on CNN in conjunction with “virus” or “covid”…
CNN Leads Mask Coverage But MSNBC Leads Trump Coverage
CNN has taken the lead over the past month on mentioning masks, while MSNBC’s mask mentions are not that much…
Mentions Of “Stress” Increase To Highest Levels In Decade
Mentions of the words “stress” and “stressed” have increased to their highest levels of the past 10 years on CNN,…
Mentions Of “Justice” Increase In Trump Era
Mentions of the phrase “justice” minus mentions of “Chief Justice” and “Justice Department” increased substantially after Donald Trump’s inauguration, though…
UCL: Forecasting The Economy With Fifty Shades Of Emotions
UCL PhD candidate Sonja Tilly will be speaking at the ODSC Europe 2020 Virtual Conference that runs from September 17-19…
Announcing The Global Relationship Graph
One of the great "grand challenges" of the field of natural language understanding lies in teaching machines to truly understand…
Gauging The State Of The Economy With News Narrative And Sentiment
This analysis by UCL PhD candidate Sonja Tilly uses GDELT's GKG to examine economic uncertainty as seen through the eyes…
Bookcase Imagery On Television News In The Covid-19 Era
Perhaps no iconic image better defines television news coverage of Covid-19 than the bookcase backdrop. As news channels interview their…
CNN Continues To Rely Heavily On Cisco Webex For Interviews
Since Mar. 9 CNN has used Cisco’s Webex to patch in remote guests for interviews, peaking on Apr. 4 and…
“Author” Imagery On Television News In The Covid-19 Era
Bookcases are everywhere on television news these days, but when did they start really appearing in volume? Looking at CNN from Jan….
Using The GKG To Compile The Top CDC & WHO Pages Linked To In The News
The CDC and WHO websites are frequently linked to in news articles as authoritative sources for information about Covid-19. But…
Tracing Global News Citations To The CDC And WHO Websites
How often have worldwide news articles linked to URLs on the CDC and WHO websites? Using the Global Knowledge Graph…
Facebook Audit Exposes Algorithm Biases in Policing Speech
Facebook this week released the results of its long-awaited civil rights audit, which was two years in the making. While…
Global Trends In The Ephemerality Of Online News
The GDELT Project's Global Difference Graph recrawls each online news article it monitors again after 24 hours and after one week and…
Global Difference Graph (GDG): Global Trends In The Ephemerality Of Online News
The Global Difference Graph (GDG) now comprises 1.3 billion change records back to August 2018. In January of last year we…
Global Difference Graph: Trends Timeline
As the Global Difference Graph (GDG) reaches 1.3 billion records, the timeline below shows the percentage of unique URLs recrawled…
Global Difference Graph (GDG) Reaches 1.3 Billion Records
The Global Difference Graph (GDG) has 1.3 billion records since August 2018, recording any changes with each article 24 hours…