Author: Kalev Leetaru
New Keynote: The Impact Of 'Deep Fakes' On Communication
Kalev's latest 45-minute keynote takes a pragmatic look at the evolving world of "deep fakes" and tracing responses to other…
Numbers Show How Trump's Tweets Drive the News Cycle
Donald Trump pioneered the modern “Twitter presidency,” in which everything from policy announcements to personal musings of the moment are…
Tracking Economic Uncertainty Through Television News
Economic stability and the minimization of uncertainty plays a critical role in the overall stability and well-being of a nation….
2020 Coverage: After Biden, Also-Ran Order Varies by Channel
Joe Biden reclaimed his spot two weeks ago as the most-covered 2020 Democratic presidential candidate across both television and online…
FiveThirtyEight: Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?
FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.
The Top Newsworthy Twitter Accounts Of 2016-2019
Using the master archive of social media outlinks found in worldwide news coverage monitored by GDELT 2016-2019, a single SQL…
A Timeline Of Global Social Media In The News 2016-2019
Using the new April 20, 2016 – September 7, 2019 historical backfile of social media links found in worldwide news…
Television News Ngram Datasets (TV-NGRAM) Now Available In BigQuery
The Television News Ngram datasets are now available in Google's BigQuery platform, updated every morning, making it possible to perform…
Television News Inventory Files Now Available In BigQuery
The Television News inventory files are now available in Google's BigQuery platform, updated every morning, making it possible to perform…
Compiling A Master List Of Social Media In The News 2016-2019
Following on our release earlier today of all of the Donald Trump tweets found in the worldwide news coverage monitored…
Charting The Popularity Of Donald Trump Tweets In The News 2016-2019
On a typical day around the world, how many news articles link to a tweet by Donald Trump? Since April…
Compiling A List Of All The Donald Trump Tweets In The News 2016-2019
Since April 20, 2016, GDELT's GKG 2.0 has compiled all of the outlinks in the body text of each article,…
Tracking Media And Search Attention To Unemployment
Unemployment is a common measure of the economic health of developed countries that also receives considerable media and search interest,…
'Climate Crisis': The Media's New Catchphrase for Climate Change
CNN held its “climate crisis” town-hall event Wednesday night, offering leading Democratic presidential contenders a chance to lay out their…
BBVA: Geo-World: Conflict & Protest August 2019
BBVA's August 2019 Geo-World: Conflict & Protest report summarizes the state of global conflict and civil unrest. Read The Full…
ISWC2019: Bootstrapping The Publication Of Linked Data Streams
Researchers Riccardo Tommasini, Mohamed Ragab, Alessandro Falcetta, Emanuele Della Valle and Sherif Sakr published "Bootstrapping The Publication Of Linked Data…
New August 2019 GKG 2.0 Themes Lookup
Advanced users are frequently interested in a list of all of the themes found in the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph…
Social Media Is About Monologues Over Dialogues But Learning Only Comes From Listening
One of the most socially important lessons a child learns as they grow up is not the mastery of language…
What Viral Scams Can Teach Us About Information Literacy
Solving the Web’s problems from fake news and deep fakes to foreign influence and digital fraud will require a newly…
From Fact Checkers To Fake News: Social Media’s Dream Of A Voice For All Has Failed
As the deluge of fake news and foreign influence washed across the digital shores, social platforms have begun to belatedly…
Axios: Andrew Yang Gets Media Cold Shoulder
Axios looks at how candidates' polling, tweets mentioning and online and television coverage compares. Read The Full Article.
AI Is Like Encryption: It Can’t Be Regulated Out Of Existence
The simple fact is that AI cannot be regulated. Legislation can help curb specific applications in regulated industries like housing…
A Look Back At How Google’s AI Sees A Week Of Television News And The World Of AI Video Understanding
Analyzing a week of television news through all of Google’s AI tools, what lessons can we learn about the state…
Biden Leapfrogs Warren, Leads Media Coverage Once Again
Last week Elizabeth Warren briefly displaced Joe Biden as the most-covered 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, beating him in both evening…