Author: Kalev Leetaru

Profit Versus Privacy: Facebook's Stock Collapse And Its Empty 'Privacy First' Promise

Creating A Planetary Scale Open Dataset: Just How Big Is GDELT?

Vox: Trump Needs His Alternate Reality To Survive – And He Knows It

RealClearPolitics: Is There Recourse When Fact Checkers Get It Wrong?

Failure Of Imagination: Why Facebook's New Academic Data Initiative Is So Dangerous

Twitter's Great Bot Purge And Can We Really Trust Active User Numbers?

The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) At 5 Months: 35 Billion URLs And Counting

Mapping Spies Through Fitness Trackers And Phones: Privacy Is Dead Even For Those In the Shadows

Facebook As The Ultimate Government Surveillance Tool?

Are Toilets The New Twitter? Using Smart City Data To Measure Interest

WashPost: People Who Say They Aren’t Following The Russia Investigation Are Much More Likely To Approve Of Trump

Is Social Media Becoming Too Toxic?

When Will Cities Begin To Monetize Their Residents' Data?

Are Facebook's New Restrictions On Data Harvesting Actually Working?

Facebook's Automated Ad Labels Plus Facial Recognition: The Real-Life Minority Report?

GDELT At Google Cloud NEXT 2018

The New Yorker: Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

GDELT 3.0: GEN 3 Crawlers & Document Extraction Infrastructure

BBVA: Monitoring Global Trade Support in real time using BigData

Vox: Nearly 2 Years Into The Trump Presidency, Fox News Is Still Obsessed With Hillary Clinton

Watching The Media Wake Up In The Morning Through Crawler CPU Graphs

A Large-Scale Arabic Sentiment Corpus Construction Using Online News Media

RealClearPolitics: Is 'Doxxing' the Future of Political Protest?

Media Matters: The Big Problem With The Term "Catch And Release"

Vox: On Fox News, Family Separation At The Border Isn't Trump’s Fault. It's Democrats'.

How The Cloud Could Empower The Future Of Academic Publisher Text And Data Mining

Verizon's Lesson That You Can't Buy Your Privacy And What It Means For Facebook

Could The Verizon Location Data Sale Have Compromised US Spy Networks?

Verizon Reselling Its Customers' Locations Is A Reminder We Are All Just Data For Sale

Why Social Media Provenance Is More Important Than Ever In An AI-Falsified World