Author: Kalev Leetaru
Academics Continue Their Attacks On Facebook's New Privacy Rules
The academic world’s latest salvo in the war against Facebook’s new privacy efforts is a letter demanding the company exempt…
Why Don't Web Companies Like Medium Want to Talk About How They Use Our Data?
Earlier this year Sandberg and Zuckerberg alluded to an ad-free subscription Facebook, but would ad-free really translate to surveillance free?…
Natural Disasters And Governance Systems: The Sociotechnical Foundations Of Post-Disaster Governance Reforms In Nepal
Farhod Yuldashev's doctoral dissertation at the University of Pittsburgh uses the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) to map a number…
Lithuanian National Radio Interview On Facebook's Global Impact
Kalev joined Karina Urbanavičiūtė on Lithuanian National Radio today to discuss Facebook's global impact reshaping our understanding of privacy throughout the…
Florida Live Interview About Facebook As The Ultimate Government Surveillance Tool
Kalev joined Dan Maduri, host of Florida Live to discuss his Forbes article on Facebook as the ultimate government surveillance…
Profit Versus Privacy: Facebook's Stock Collapse And Its Empty 'Privacy First' Promise
Even as Facebook promises to put “privacy first” it is moving aggressively to open its two billion users’ most private…
Creating A Planetary Scale Open Dataset: Just How Big Is GDELT?
The GDELT Project encompasses an incredible array of datasets spanning the entire planet, reaching across 65 languages and making sense…
Vox: Trump Needs His Alternate Reality To Survive – And He Knows It
Vox' Alvin Chang explores the alternate universe of Fox's television news coverage of the presidency. Read The Full Article.
RealClearPolitics: Is There Recourse When Fact Checkers Get It Wrong?
What is one to do when fact checkers refuse to correct their errors? Read The Full Article.
Failure Of Imagination: Why Facebook's New Academic Data Initiative Is So Dangerous
Facebook’s new initiative portends a frightening Orwellian new world where academics across the world are now gifted access to our…
Twitter's Great Bot Purge And Can We Really Trust Active User Numbers?
Is Twitter’s recent bot purge a publicity stunt to show lawmakers it cares or does it represent a company that…
The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) At 5 Months: 35 Billion URLs And Counting
Since the launch of GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) on March 2nd of this year, the dataset has rapidly evolved…
Mapping Spies Through Fitness Trackers And Phones: Privacy Is Dead Even For Those In the Shadows
Silicon Valley needs experts outside the technology world to help it think in new and creative ways about how its…
Facebook As The Ultimate Government Surveillance Tool?
Facebook’s international reach, massive centralized data warehouse and algorithms that can divine the most sensitive and intimate elements of our…
Are Toilets The New Twitter? Using Smart City Data To Measure Interest
How water usage in Tokyo during the World Cup offers a lesson in the ways smart city data can be…
WashPost: People Who Say They Aren’t Following The Russia Investigation Are Much More Likely To Approve Of Trump
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how the major networks have covered the Russian story. Read The Full Article.
Is Social Media Becoming Too Toxic?
Somewhere along the way social media lost its way and it remains to be seen whether the current generation of…
When Will Cities Begin To Monetize Their Residents' Data?
What happens as cash-strapped cities wake up to the immense monetary value of the vast archives of sensitive information they…
Are Facebook's New Restrictions On Data Harvesting Actually Working?
The academic world that had so stridently attacked Facebook for its user data practices now condemns the company for limiting…
Facebook's Automated Ad Labels Plus Facial Recognition: The Real-Life Minority Report?
Facebook’s algorithms secretly guess which of its two billion users are interested in treason while the company files patents on…
GDELT At Google Cloud NEXT 2018
GDELT makes two appearances at Google Cloud NEXT next week! Anand Autar, Head of Portfolio Risk Management at ING, Pieter…
The New Yorker: Are Things Getting Better or Worse?
An article in the July 23rd issue of The New Yorker talks about how we understand and assess the world…
GDELT 3.0: GEN 3 Crawlers & Document Extraction Infrastructure
We're incredibly excited to announce today that over the past 24 hours GDELT's entire fleet of front line article crawlers…
BBVA: Monitoring Global Trade Support in real time using BigData
BBVA's latest report offers a fascinating glimpse of the global discussion of global trade support, including a number of innovative…