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Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum In Ankara Next Week

Kalev will be speaking next week at the Stratcom Disaster Communication Forum In Ankara, Türkiye.

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Visual Explorer: Taiwan Television (TTV) Now Available

In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are excited to announce that Taiwan Television (TTV) is now…

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Visual Explorer: Taiwan's China Television (CTV) Now Available

In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are excited to announce that Taiwan's China Television (CTV) is…

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America's Toxic Mix Of Guns, Concern Over Crime – And Fear-Mongering

The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of media coverage of crime. Read The Full Article.

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IJNet: 4 Ways To Improve Global Coverage Of Russia's War On Ukraine

Luba Kassova examines media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Read The Full Article.

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Visual Explorer: Searching Russian TV News With The At-Scale Face Detection & Embedding RESTful API

Last week we showcased how to create a full-fledged massively parallel and scalable face detection and embedding API with just…

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AI Face Restoration In Blurry Grainy Poor-Quality Imagery & Video

One of the most surprising discoveries from yesterday's deep dive into AI image and video enhancement tools is the accuracy…

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Experiments With AI Image & Video Enhancement: Colorizing, Upscaling & Face Restoration

One of the greatest challenges in analyzing video content over time and space is the unique nature of historical and…

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Visual Explorer: Building An At-Scale Face Detection & Embedding RESTful API

Over the past few weeks we've unveiled a series of experiments exploring face detection and analysis over Russian television news,…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Dylan Mulvaney & Gender In the US & Europe

Russian television covered the Bud Light / Dylan Mulvaney story today with a broader piece on gender in the US…

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Jacksonville Journal-Courier: Commentary: The Real Problem With TikTok

The Jacksonville Journal-Courier reprinted Kalev's TikTok analsis. Read The Full Article.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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.

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Rod Arquette Show: The Problem With TikTok

Kalev joined the Rod Arquette show today to discuss his RealClearPolitics analysis "The Problem With TikTok". Listen.

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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…

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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…

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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"…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…