Author: Kalev Leetaru

Why Can't Facebook Do Better At Fact Checking Photos And Videos?

Geography Still Defines Who We Are Connected To In The Social Media Era

Peering Into The Visual Landscape Of Half A Billion News Images With Google's Cloud Inference API

Peering Into The Visual Landscape Of Half A Billion News Images With Google’s Cloud Inference API

WashPost: The Pattern Continues: Fox News Spends Far Less Time Discussing Trump’s Law-Breaking Allies

Cloud Inference API Launch

Harvard: Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

WashPost: Cable News Coverage Of Approaching Hurricanes Is Only Sometimes Out Of Whack With Reality

WashPost: Trump's 9/11 Starts Like Any Other Day – With Him Mad At Something He Saw On Fox

Why Google's Inclusive Images Challenge Is So Important

Why Facebook's New User Trustworthiness Scores Are So Frightening

What Does It Mean To Live Our Entire Lives Under Digital Surveillance?

Why Government And Social Media Platforms Must Cooperate To Fight Misinformation

Why Digital Signatures Won't Prevent Deep Fakes But Will Help Repressive Governments

Is Social Media Content Moderation An Impossible Task?

Why We Still Need Human Moderators In An AI-Powered World

RealClearPolitics: 'Deep Fakes' and the Fight for Truth Online

How Smartphones And Social Media Taught Us It's Ok To Be Paparazzi

EWTN: Does Social Media Treat Conservatives Unfairly?

RealClearPolitics: Social Media's Opaque Response to Conservative-Bias Charges

Customer Service In The Social Media Era: Complain Publicly Or Get Nothing

The New Yorker: Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance

Scalable Prediction of Global Online Media News Virality

International Conflict's Impact On The Stock Market: A GDELT Project-Based Event Study

Why Facebook's Financial Services Interest Tells Us The Era Of Privacy Is Over

Understanding False Positives In the New GDG

Announcing the GDELT Global Difference Graph (GDG): Planetary Scale Change Detection For The Global News Media

VGKG 2.0 Adds Histogram-Based Image Entropy Filtering And WEBP Support

WashPost: Giuliani Is Right: A Trump Impeachment Likely Would Spur Some Sort Of Revolt

Lessons Learned From Planetary Scale News Crawling