Author: Kalev Leetaru
Trump Era Popularized The Term "False Flag"
The term "false flag" rarely appeared on television news until early 2017 after Donald Trump's election, spiking in January 2021…
TV News Visual Explorer: Announcing The TV Rain Archive
We are tremendously excited to announce today that in collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive, the historical archive…
One Year After Afghanistan Fell To The Taliban It Remains Absent From Television News
On the one-year anniversary of Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban, the country remains largely absent from television news. Within two…
Friends, Foes, Or “Frenemies”: Intercountry Relations And Cross-Border Acquisitions
We draw on the political institutions approach and relational embeddedness perspective to advance a relational theory of policy risk. We…
Come See GDELT At The Misinformation Village @ DEF CON 30
Kalev will be speaking later today in a prerecorded talk at the The Misinformation Village @ DEF CON 30 in…
CNN And MSNBC Have Given More Airtime To Fox News' Dominion Voting Falsehoods More Than Fox News Itself
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Fox News prominently promoted the false conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting voting machines…
World Elephant Day: Using GDELT To Track Global Wildlife Crime
In honor of World Elephant Day, we look back on how GDELT has been used to track global wildlife crime….
Media Coverage Of Layoffs Is Increasing Slightly
In the aftermath of the 2008 recession, mentions of layoffs increased on television news, but dropped sharply in early 2013…
NYTimes Magazine: Why Isn't Biden Ever on TV?
An article in today's New York Times Magazine uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of President Biden. Read…
Consumer Expectations Of Inflation: Comparing Media & Survey Summaries
Last week we explored how both television news coverage and Google Trends search interest in inflation were decreasing, suggesting a…
Television News Coverage Of Monkeypox Picks Up Slightly
While the WHO was informed of a UK monkeypox case on May 7th, BBC News London did not cover the…
Leveraging Semantic Property For Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
Temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) have become an effective tool for numerous intelligent applications. Due to their incompleteness, TKG embedding methods…
International Interactions: Forecasting Change In Conflict Fatalities With Dynamic Elastic Net
This paper by Fulvio Attinà, Marcello Carammia and Stefano M. Iacus utilizes GDELT as an input to conflict forecasting: This…
Taiwan Is Getting The Most TV News Attention Of The Past Decade
Domestic TV news mentions of Taiwan in the US picked up in April 2020 and have reached their highest levels…
The Fact-Checkers Have Spoken: We Are Not In A Recession
Last week, Facebook and its fact-checking partners began applying a warning label to some posts claiming that the American economy…
Improving Multilingual Entity Identification And Disambiguation
As we look to ways to help the NLP community move towards truly multilingual approaches, one area of especial interest…
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.