Author: Kalev Leetaru
Fox News Never Pivoted Back To Trump & His 2024 Announcement Flops
The timeline below shows total mentions of Donald Trump across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since the start of 2021….
IJNET: News Coverage Of Systemic Gender Gaps Is Virtually Nonexistent. We Can Change That.
A powerful article in IJNET (International Journalists' Network) by Luba Kassova explores gender gaps in media coverage. Read The Full…
ChatGPT Experiments: Autoregressive Large Language Models (AR-LLMs) And The Limits Of Reasoning As Structured Summarization
As we continue to expand our rapidly growing archive of ChatGPT experiments, we can see that, like Whisper, the panacea…
Video: CNS Research Showcase: Television As Data: Opening The Internet Archive’s Two Decade Archive Of Global Television News Spanning 50 Countries To Journalists & Scholars Through AI, Analytics, Search & Visualization
Kalev spoke last month on January 23th at Indiana University's Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS) on GDELT's collaborations with…
How Is The Turkish Earthquake Being Covered One Week Later?
How is the Turkish earthquake being covered one week later? If we assume that nearly all earthquake coverage over the…
TV News Coverage Of Crime Continues Rising Across CNN, MSNBC And Fox News
While Fox News is often portrayed as excessively fixating on crime, it turns out that overall its month-to-month steady mentions…
Elon Musk Vs Joe Biden: Musk Gets A Fraction Of TV News Mentions But Beat Biden In Searches Late Last Year
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter has given him an even larger public persona. How do his media mentions and search…
UFOs & Chinese Balloons On TV News
How are the Chinese balloon and other balloon and "UFO" sightings being covered on TV news? The timeline below shows…
ChatGPT Experiments: Reasoning & Negation – Summarization's Strengths & Surprising Limits
ChatGPT has demonstrated a surprising ability to answer questions that involve basic reasoning and negation, leading to considerable public commentary…
Covid-19 Mentions Remain Flat On Television News
Weekly mentions of Covid-19 have remained relatively flat for nearly a year.
ChatGPT Experiments: How ChatGPT Handles Criminal Allegations Against Public Figures
How does ChatGPT respond when posed questions about criminal allegations against public figures? Both President Joe Biden and Supreme Court…
ChatGPT Experiments: ChatGPT's Thoughts On Which Presidents Are Truthful & Reliable Sources
What is ChatGPT's opinion on which recent US presidents were "truthful" and/or "reliable sources" of information? This tests how public…
American TV News Coverage Of Ukraine Is Down 25-Fold While RT & DW Lead Coverage
The timeline below shows total mentions of Ukraine since the start of last year, showing how quickly American television news…
Ukraine Is Fading On Russia Today As The Invasion Grinds On
The timeline below shows total mentions of Ukraine on Russia Today since 2010 (there is an outage in the Archive's…
Visual Explorer: Using Chrome's Google Lens Integration To OCR & Translate Onscreen Text
While the Visual Explorer performs speech recognition and machine translation into English on the Belarusian, Persian, Russian and Ukrainian television…
ChatGPT Experiments: Verifying Quotes By Public Figures
Could ChatGPT be used to fact check "who said what" statements involving major public figures? In other words, when encountering…
ChatGPT Experiments: Public Figure Safety Features & How Adding "Donald Trump" Makes ChatGPT Dismiss True As "False & Fabricated"
To what degree do OpenAI's conversational health efforts for ChatGPT differentiate public figures from others in providing additional safeguards surrounding…
ChatGPT Experiments: The Limitations Of Structured Summarization Versus Codification & Realtime Versus "Known" Domains
As we've been exploring ways Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can help us better make sense of the vast…
ChatGPT Experiments: Instant Event Databases
Could Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT be used to instantly transform textual news articles into codified event databases, leveraging…
WashPost: Whose 'Fault' Is The Increase In Fentanyl Overdoses?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an examination of coverage of fentanyl on television news, including an interesting contextual look…
ChatGPT Experiments: Looking Across Turkish Earthquake Coverage To Codify Aid Promises
One of the greatest promises of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are their ability to look across vast volumes…
ChatGPT Experiments: Tell Me All Of The True & False Statements In This Article
To what degree can ChatGPT be automatically identify all of the true and false statements in news coverage, extracting the…
ChatGPT Experiments: Automated Fact Checking Of Articles & Trump's False 2020 Claims
To what degree can ChatGPT be used to "fact check" news coverage, extracting the claims within and comparing it with…
ChatGPT Experiments: What Is Fact Versus Opinion?
To what degree can ChatGPT differentiate between statements of fact and opinion in news coverage, decomposing an article into constituent…