Author: Kalev Leetaru
Spinmeisters Of Iran: How Iranian Television Is Covering The French Protests
Iran has been using the protests in France as an opportunity to spin itself once again as a protector of…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: A Look Back At Prigozhin's Comments On 2016 Election Information Operations
In light of Prigozhin's past weekend's attempted coup, it is interesting to look back on his comments last year acknowledging…
Visual Explorer: Historical Backfiles For Al Maghribia, TVR Info And TV3 Coming Soon
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the complete TV News Archive historical backfiles for Morocco's Al Maghribia,…
Video: Collision 2023: The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation
The video of yesterday's panel at Collision 2023 in Toronto is now available! The panel titled "The Continuing Threat Of…
Today: Collision 2023: The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation
Kalev is speaking today at Collision 2023 in Toronto on a panel titled "The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation" alongside Kiran…
Is It Really 'All Trump All the Time' On Cable News?
For much of the past decade Donald Trump has loomed large over the media landscape, his name and face an…
Join Us At Collision 2023 This Week
If you're at Collision 2023 in Toronto this week, get in touch for an early glimpse at some of our…
Collision 2023: The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation
Kalev will be speaking this week at Collision 2023 in Toronto on a panel titled "The Continuing Threat Of Misinformation"…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: A Selected Look At Coverage Of The Prigozhin Rebellion
Below are a few selections of how media covered Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion. Putin’s recorded announcement June 24 10am…
Visual Explorer: How The World Is Covering The Events In Russia
With the Visual Explorer's new thumbnail-based instantly skimmable homepage, you can now instantly survey how the world's media are covering…
Spinmeisters Of Iran: PressTV Provides Regular Updates On Russian Coup-In-Progress While IRINN Gives Less Airtime
Iran's English-language PressTV is providing steady coverage of the Russian coup-in-progress and appears to actually be giving it more airtime…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: Russian TV News Not Heavily Covering Wagner's Attempted Coup
Remarkably, unlike American media that typically turn to 24/7 coverage of major breaking events, Russian television news is continuing with…
Cataloging 14 Years Of Obama, Trump, Biden And DeSantis Appearances On CNN, MSNBC And Fox News
Earlier this week we unveiled a massive new catalog of every appearance of a human face across CNN, MSNBC and…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: Sample Russian TV News Coverage Of Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's Statement
With Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's statement, below are two clips showing samples of how Russian television news is covering the…
Visual Explorer: New Daily Broadcast Catalog Visual Interface
We're excited to announce today a major new update to the Visual Explorer's homepage that transforms how we display the…
Iran's PressTV: "What's In The Bathroom"
Iranian television news channel PressTV today aired a satiric episode titled "What's in the Bathroom" covering the legal saga over…
TV Visual Explorer: Catalonia's TV3 Now Available
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, Catalonia's TV3 channel is now available in the Visual Explorer. Over…
CNN Leads The Way In TV News Coverage Of The Titanic Submersible Search
CNN is leading coverage of the Titanic submersible search, mentioning it twice as much as BBC News and nearly four…
Enriching Democracy: Connecting Our Nation's Legislation To The Legislative Process Via Deep Linking CSPAN
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, over the past few months we have explored the concept of…
Extending The Face Detection Database To American TV News: 14 Years Of CNN, MSNBC & Fox News
Earlier this year we unveiled a massive new database of facial embeddings spanning one full year across seven Belarusian, Russian…
Extending The Face Detection Database To American TV News: Coming Tomorrow
Stay tuned for a major new announcement tomorrow about facial embeddings!
Visual Explorer: Ron DeSantis & Barack Obama Added To TV News Public Figures Embedding Database
This past May we unveiled the Visual Explorer TV News Public Figures Embedding Database that contains precomputed embeddings for major…
Entity Extraction: LLMs Versus Classical Neural Model + Live-Updating Knowledge Graph
Large language models are increasingly being positioned as a wholesale replacement for nearly all language analysis tasks, from Q&A and…
Generative AI: Using LLM's To Produce Audience-Tailored Translations In Place Of Classical NMT's One-Size-Fits-All
Last month we explored the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce higher-quality translations than traditional Neural Machine Translation…