Author: Kalev Leetaru
Jacksonville Journal-Courier: Commentary: The Real Problem With TikTok
The Jacksonville Journal-Courier reprinted Kalev's TikTok analsis. Read The Full Article.
Chicago's Morning Answer: The Dan Proft Show: Kalev Leetaru Discusses Issues With AI And The Letter Calling For A Pause
Kalev appeared on the Dan Proft show this morning to discuss the calls for an AI pause. Listen.
Presidential Announcements Haven't Been Good At Generating Attention
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines mentions of presidential announcements on TV news. Read The Full Article.
Spinmeisters Of Belarus: Flooding In Florida
Belarusian television this morning took time from its coverage of domestic stories to feature a brief look at flooding in…
Spinmeisters Of Belarus: Latvian Border Fence Killing Wildlife
Belarusian television today portrayed a new Latvian border fence as harming the environment and killing wildlife, with the EU attempting…
Visual Explorer: More Experiments In Facial Search Over Russian Television News
Stay tuned for an exciting new series coming this week on scaling up facial search over Russian TV news.
Rod Arquette Show: The Problem With TikTok
Kalev joined the Rod Arquette show today to discuss his RealClearPolitics analysis "The Problem With TikTok". Listen.
The Problem With TikTok
Last month’s congressional TikTok hearing was both a symbol of deteriorating United States–China relations and an anxious reaction to a…
Behind The Scenes: Planetary-Scale Cache Synchronization
At GDELT's scale, even the smallest processing pipelines can span the globe. One challenge with geographically-distributed workflows across large numbers…
The Trump Bump Has Faded Already From His Arraignment
Trump's arraignment last week yielded a peak of mentions on Tuesday that promptly crashed through Friday, showing the "Trump bump"…
DREAM: Adaptive Reinforcement Learning Based On Attention Mechanism For Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning
Temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) model the temporal evolution of events and have recently attracted increasing attention. Since TKGs are intrinsically…
Ukraine US TV News Coverage Continues In Steady State
US television news coverage of Ukraine continues in a steady state, as seen in the timeline below.
Crypto Has Been Soaring In The News This Year
Cryptocurrency mentions have been soaring in global news since the start of this year: View Live Graph.
Bridging Nations: Quantifying The Role Of Multilinguals In Communication On Social Media
Social media enables the rapid spread of many kinds of information, from memes to social movements. However, little is known…
Visual Channel Comparer: A Look At How CNN, MSNBC & Fox News Covered Trump's Arraignment
Last November we showcased how the Visual Channel Comparer can be used to visually compare the coverage of television news…
Charleston Conference: The Future Of Scholarly Communication In A ChatGPT World
Kalev spoke today at the Charleston Conference's Charleston In Between event "The Future Of Scholarly Communication In A ChatGPT World":…
Politico: How To Tell What's Real Online
Kalev is quoted in an article in Politico today on deepfakes and online falsehoods in a generative world. Read the…
Building A Global Streaming Video Biden, Putin & Zelenskyy Scanner In Just A Few Lines Of Code
Last month we demonstrated applying facial scanning to Russian television news to catalog all of the appearances of Tucker Carlson…
Facial Co-Occurrence At Scale As A Way Of Understanding The Narrative Landscape Of Television News
Over the past month we've explored the ability of facial analysis to help us understand the narrative landscape of television…
RealClearMarkets: Don't Rework Section 230, Pursue Private Rating System Instead
An article in today's RealClearMarkets uses the TV Explorer to track coverage of Section 230. Read The Full Article.
Visual Explorer: Using An Embedding Database To Search A Year Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes For Zelenskyy In Near-Realtime
Last month we demonstrated searching a year of Russian television news' 60 Minutes to find all appearances of Tucker Carlson….
Visual Explorer: Visualizing The Network Of Facial Co-Occurrences Of A Year Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes
Last month we visualized the network of who appeared alongside whom in an episode of Russian TV news' "60 Minutes"…
This Week: Charleston Conference: The Future Of Scholarly Communication In A ChatGPT World
Kalev will be speaking at the Charleston Conference's Charleston In Between event "The Future Of Scholarly Communication In A ChatGPT…
Visual Explorer: 1.8 Billion Words Of Onscreen Captioning Now Displayed For CSPAN, CSPAN2 & CSPAN3
For more than a decade the Internet Archive's TV News Archive has been archiving CSPAN and CSPAN2 (since June 4,…