Author: Kalev Leetaru
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,…
Using ChatGPT + CSPAN To Automatically Identify Mentions Of House Resolutions & Bills In Congressional Transcripts
Could we use ChatGPT to analyze a CSPAN broadcast of a House of Representatives session and automatically identify all mentions…
Using ChatGPT + CSPAN To Enhance The Transcripts Of Our Nation's Congressional Lawmaking
Yesterday we demonstrated the ability of ChatGPT to enhance hand-typed television news transcripts by converting them from endless streams of…
Using ChatGPT To Enhance Hand-Generated Television News Closed Captioning
Hand-generated television news closed captioning in the US is typically exclusively upper or lower case and is often riddled with…
Hallucination In Summarization: When ChatGPT Hallucinated New Stories In An Evening News Broadcast
Yesterday we compared how OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard summarize a television evening news broadcast. Look closely and you'll spot…
Google's Bard Vs OpenAI's ChatGPT: Summarizing An ABC Evening News Broadcast
Last month we explored using OpenAI's ChatGPT to summarize an ABC Evening News broadcast, testing its ability to look across…
WashPost: How Marjorie Taylor Greene Became The Queen Of The GOP Fringe
The Washington Post's David Byler includes an analysis of media coverage of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Read The Full Article.
Fully Autonomous Diplomacy + Counter-Messaging Experiments With ChatGPT + GDELT + Midjourney v5
Yesterday we demonstrated the use of ChatGPT in a fully autonomous counter-messaging pipeline, designed to automatically monitor television news coverage…