Author: Kalev Leetaru
The "Metaverse" Is Still Getting Attention On The News
As a growing list of companies pivot away from the metaverse, television, business and online news are still mentioning the…
Replacing Bespoke AI Categorization Models By Using ChatGPT To Create Instant Models
Could ChatGPT be used to create instant categorization models that perform the same task as bespoke models trained on large…
Fully Autonomous Diplomacy + Counter-Messaging Experiments With ChatGPT + GDELT
Given the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to craft human-like prose, how easily could they be used…
SMA EUCOM: Exploring A Year Of Russian Television News’ Propaganda Landscape Through AI: From Speech & Visual Analysis To ChatGPT
Kalev spoke today as part of the DOD SMA (Strategic Multilayer Assessment) EUCOM speaker series in a talk titled "Exploring…
Recession Mentions Continue To Fade Away On Television News
Mentions of an impending recession continue to fade away on television news channels.
"Maga" Mentions Fade On CNN & Fox News But Continue On MSNBC
Mentions of "Maga" have faded sharply on CNN and Fox News, but continue to be steadily mentioned on MSNBC.
Mentions Of "Wokeness" Soared On Fox News In 2021 With CNN & MSNBC Surging This Year
Mentions of "woke" and "wokeness" surged on Fox News from January 2021, but over the last three months have surged…
Pandemic Coverage Continues To Fade Across Both Online And Television News
Television news mentions of the pandemic continue their downward descent: Online news coverage of the pandemic shows a new descent…
Being "Canceled" Took Off In 2020 On Television News But Has Been Fading Since 2021
The timeline below tracks total mentions of "canceled" on television news, showing nearly equal mentions through mid-2020, when the term…
Fox News Dominates Mentions Of "Radical" Over The Past Decade
As the timeline and graph below show, Fox News has dominated mentions of the word "radical" over the past decade….
WashPost: Ray Epps Seeks The Seemingly Impossible: An Apology From Tucker Carlson
The Washington Post's Philip Bump tracks Fox News coverage of Ray Epps. Read The Full Article.
WashPost: The TikTok fight Is A Generational Fight
The Washington Post's Philip Bump references television news coverage of TikTok. View The Full Article.
Biden Versus Musk On Business Television News
The timeline below compares the percentage of airtime across business television news channels since the start of last year that…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: The Bucha Massacre Likened To WWII Nazis
On Sunday evening, Russia-24 presented a 2-part piece (~50 minutes) framing Ukraine's fight against Russia’s invasions as a product of…
Visual Explorer: Creating Visual Networks Of Facial Co-Occurrences On An Episode Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes – Revisited
Last week we demonstrated using a simplistic facial extraction and visual clustering pipeline to extract the faces from a single…
Adding Confidence Scores To Tracking A Year Of Tucker Carlson On Russia 1's "60 Minutes"
Last month, in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we demonstrated scanning a year of Russia1's "60 Minutes"…
Visual Explorer: More Explorations Of The Facial Landscape Of Russian TV News
Stay tuned for a series of experiments in the coming week using far more advanced tools to understand the facial…
BBVA Research: Social Unrest Heat Map From Worldwide News
BBVA Research's Alvaro Ortiz looks back on a decade of tracking global conflict using GDELT. Read The Full Post.
Visual Explorer: Clustering A Year Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes By Frame-Level Visual Similarity
Yesterday, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, we unveiled a major new analysis that visually clustered an entire episode of…
Visual Explorer: Cataloging Advertisements On Russian Television News
Sampling Russian television news broadcasts every 4 seconds and pairwise comparing those "visual ngrams" over an entire broadcast yields a…
Visual Explorer: Clustering An Entire Russian TV News Broadcast By Frame-Level Visual Similarity
In collaboration with the Internet Archive, the Visual Explorer extracts one frame every 4 seconds from each broadcast to create…
Visual Explorer: Visualizing Who Appears Alongside Whom On An Episode Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes
Who appears alongside whom on television news represents a key editorial decision of what voices to pair. From split-screen displays…
By Focusing On Transparency, SCOTUS Could Leave Section 230 Intact
For the first time since Section 230 was passed a quarter-century ago, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that…
Visual Explorer + ChatGPT = What A Day Of Russian TV News Says About Zelensky
Yesterday, in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we announced the availability of more than 1 billion words…