Author: Kalev Leetaru
ASPI: Assessing The Impact Of CCP Information Operations Related To Xinjiang
A new report by Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) International Cyber Policy Centre by Albert Zhang with Tilla Hoja titled…
Video: Network 20/20: The Geopolitics Of Technology: Propaganda And Misinformation In The Digital Age
Kalev spoke today at a Network 20/20 virtual event on panel with the Brookings Institution's Chris Meserole titled "The Geopolitics…
Today: Network 20/20: The Geopolitics Of Technology: Propaganda And Misinformation In The Digital Age
Kalev is speaking today at a Network 20/20 virtual event on panel with the Brookings Institution's Chris Meserole titled "The…
WAToday: Doctored Tweet Of Australian 'War Crime' Part Of Beijing 'Sentiment Mobilisation'
An article today in WAToday uses GDELT to track the number of mentions of Xinjiang in English language worldwide online…
Ukraine Has Faded From The News
From its peak on February 26th, mentions of Ukraine decreased linearly and since June 10th have been relatively stable at…
Trump Got The Media Talking About China And Kept Fox News's Attention On It
Prior to Donald Trump's November 2016 election, coverage of China on television news was relatively consistent, with CNN, MSNBC and…
The "Deep State" Has Faded On Television News Since Biden's Inauguration
The phrase "deep state" burst into center stage in early 2017 and was a constant fixture in the news during…
Network 20/20: The Geopolitics Of Technology: Propaganda And Misinformation In The Digital Age
Kalev will be speaking at a Network 20/20 virtual event next week on panel with the Brookings Institution's Chris Meserole…
Planetary Scale Knowledge Graphs: Tractable Approaches To Mining Massive Graphs
Earlier this week we touched on some of the incredible and unparalleled new classes of research questions that are now…
Global News: Russia Today Covered 'Freedom Convoy' Protests More Than Any Foreign Outlet: Research
The Global News covered research by Ahmed Al-Rawi, director of Simon Fraser University’s Disinformation Project that tracked television news coverage…
Trump Still Dominates TV News, Media Moves On From Biden
Last week, Fox News’ Howard Kurtz wrote about the media’s cooling stance toward President Biden amid growing concerns that he…
Planetary Scale Knowledge Graphs: Understanding Global Narratives
GDELT represents one of the largest open multimodal datasets in existence for understanding global human society, totaling more than 3.2…
New Consumer At Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2022: Consumer Trends
The New Consumer's Founder and Editor-in-Chief Dan Frommer presented at Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2022 today, unveiling their Consumer Trends 2022…
January 6th Hearings Attract Substantial But Waning TV News Onscreen Textual Mentions
The congressional January 6th hearings have attracted substantial television news attention, with the timeline below showing the total seconds of…
TV News Visual Explorer: Exploring The Visual Narratives Of Personality-Driven Programming
This past April, the New York Times published a four-part series that deeply examined the entire run of the Tucker…
MediaFutures Project Update: Edit Wars: Data-Based Art Research On Russian Propaganda
This fascinating project uses the Global Difference Graph to explore the fluid Russian media landscape. Learn More.
TV News Visual Explorer: 24 Channels From 7 Countries In 4 Languages Spanning A Decade
With the addition of Bloomberg Television yesterday, the TV Visual Explorer now spans 24 channels from 7 countries in 4 languages,…
Midterm Mentions Remain Muted With Just Four Months To Go
With just four months until what many in the media and punditry are predicting will be a party shift in…
How Television News Has Covered "Transitory" Inflation
The notion of "transitory" inflation burst into the media landscape in May 2021 as the US Government sought to reassure…
TV News Is Talking More About "Prices" Than It Has The Past Decade
Mentions of "prices" on television news peaked in March 2012 and have remained relatively low over the past decade, with…
TV Visual Explorer: Using Still Image Video Surrogates With Video AI
Last month we explored what Google's Cloud Video API sees in an episode of Russian television's "Antifake" show. In that…
TV Visual Explorer: Bloomberg Television 2020-Present Historical Backfile Now Available
To make it possible for scholars, journalists and public health officials to better understand how the story of the Covid-19…
Behind The Scenes: Decoupling Ingest From Processing
Always remember that once data is ingested into the cloud, it can be made available anywhere at any scale. Thus,…
Mentions Of China's "Zero Covid" Efforts Fade From American Television News
Mentions of China's ambitious "zero covid" efforts peaked in December last year and again from March to May of this…