Author: Kalev Leetaru
Mentions Of Sanctions Have Collapsed On Television News
Mentions of economic sanctions reached a decade-long high in February 2022 with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but rapidly disappeared…
No. 10 Innovation Masterclass: The Innovation Process & Assessing Global Risk Through GDELT
Kalev spoke at the No. 10 Innovation Masterclass today, opening with a look at how GDELT powers an ever-growing fraction…
FTMF: Few-Shot Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion Based On Meta-Optimization And Fault-Tolerant Mechanism
Traditional knowledge graph completion mainly focuses on static knowledge graph. Although there are efforts studying temporal knowledge graph completion, they…
Identifying Conspiracy Theories At Their Earliest Stages
How might we build systems capable of tractable mass-scale scanning of global news coverage for known falsehoods and conspiracy theories?…
TV News Visual Explorer: A Testbed For Exploring The Limitations Of Visual AI Systems & Making Them More Inclusive
The TV Visual Explorer now spans 24 channels from 7 countries in 4 languages, encompassing the majority of the active…
Media and Public Appear To Be Moving On From Inflation
Earlier this year, after long dismissing inflation as “temporary,” the Biden administration finally acknowledged rising consumer costs, with Democrats blaming…
WashPost: Fox Is Talking About Trump Less Because It's Busy Talking About Biden
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Trump and Biden. Read The Full Article.
ZeroHedge: Would Eliminating Bots Really Fix Twitter?
ZeroHedge republished Kalev's RealClearPolitics article titled "Would Eliminating Bots Really Fix Twitter?". Read The Full Article.
A Causal Inquiry Into The Economics Of Migration And Trade
This PhD dissertation by Afnan Al-Malk of the Department of Economics, Lancaster University uses selected data from GDELT. Read The…
Making Visual AI More Inclusive To The World's Diversity
Much as GDELT's 150-language Web NGrams 3.0 dataset offers the potential to make textual AI far more inclusive to the…
Would Eliminating Bots Really Fix Twitter?
Earlier this year, Elon Musk created shock waves with his unsolicited offer to purchase Twitter, arguing that the social media…
Truly Multilingual NLP: Making AI Inclusive To The World's Diverse Languages
GDELT today spans more than 150 languages from across the world. With the release of the 150-language Web News NGrams…
A Living Laboratory For Studying The World & A Platform To Prototype The Future
GDELT represents both a living laboratory for studying the world in realtime and a platform for prototyping the future of…
NYTimes: Biden Insists There's No Recession As He Confronts Latest Economic Risk
The New York Times references television news coverage of recession. Read The Full Article.
Identifying Politically Polarized Stories & Language
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the Television Explorer allows keyword searching of CNN, MSNBC and Fox…
TechCircle: Unicorn 5ire Bets On Proof-Of-Benefit For Platform Adoption
Blockchain startup 5ire uses GDELT as a source to construct a "proof of benefit" layer on top of "proof of…
"You Are Here": Helping The Public Navigate Their Informational Choices
Over the years we've explored how the GKG's outlink graph can be used to construct "you are here" maps of…
Modeling Precursors For Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning Via Auto-Encoder Structure
This study explores temporal knowledge graph reasoning: Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) reasoning that infers missing facts in the future is…
Creating A New Generation Of Recommender Services: From Cohorts & Classification To Context & Trustworthiness
As we continue to explore how to help the world's citizenry access trustworthy information, one key area of research we…
The Covid-19 Pandemic Has Largely Faded From The News
Since March of this year, mentions of Covid-19 have remained relatively flat, with a slight upwards arc through May and…
Climate Change Coverage Slowly Rising On Television News
After reaching a low point in July 2020 during the pandemic and sharply decreasing again at the end of 2021…
China Digital Times: CCP Seeks Control Over Xinjiang Narrative As Xi Visits The Region
China Digital Times covers a new report by Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) International Cyber Policy Centre. Read The Full…
Abortion Activists Fume, Media and Public Move On
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights activists have become increasingly vocal, protesting…
ASPI: Assessing The Impact Of CCP Information Operations Related To Xinjiang: Graphs
A new report by Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) International Cyber Policy Centre by Albert Zhang with Tilla Hoja titled…