Author: Kalev Leetaru
United Nations ESCWA: Big Data For Good: Can Big Data Illustrate the Challenges Facing Syrian Refugees in Lebanon?
This fascinating report under the auspices of the United Nation's ESCWA uses GDELT to examine Arabic language coverage: Timely evidence…
Global Embedded Metadata Graph Reaches 705M Articles
We're excited to announce that the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, released this past December and running July 2018 to present,…
Online News Coverage Of "Herd Immunity" Continues At December Rate
Mentions of "herd immunity" in online news coverage first appeared in significant numbers starting March 13, 2020, ramped down over May 2020…
Online News Coverage Of "Herd Immunity" Continues At December Rate
Mentions of "herd immunity" in online news coverage first appeared in significant numbers starting March 13, 2020, ramped down over May 2020…
"Immunity Passports" Fade From The News
So-called "immunity passports" were once touted as the way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, in which once someone had been…
FiveThirtyEight: What Do Americans Think Of Marjorie Taylor Greene? Liz Cheney? Josh Hawley?
FiveThirtyEight used GDELT's TV Explorer to examine television coverage as part of a broader look at several GOP members of…
A Brief Look At The Technical Progression Of Our "Narrated News" Highlight Videos: From Zoom To Atem Mini Pro ISO
Each week Kalev narrates a few of his latest news analyses in brief 1-2 minute "narrated news" highlights videos in…
Vanguardia MX: Why Twitter Moderation Works So Badly
An article in today's Vanguardia MX examines GDELT's Twitter 2012-2021 analysis on how Twitter has evolved over time. Read The…
Weaponizing Narrative: Russia Contesting Europe’s Liberal Identity, Power And Hegemony
This study by Andriy Tyushka, European Neighbourhood Policy Chair, College of Europe in Natolin in Warsaw, Poland, uses GDELT to…
Comparing CNN, MSNBC And Fox News Coverage Of "Police" And "Death"
Television news covered slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick very differently, with CNN and MSNBC emphasizing spoken word mentions of his name…
TV News Coverage Of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick: The Different Stories Of Spoken Versus Onscreen Mentions
How was the death of slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick covered on television news? What can we learn about…
WSJ: Notable & Quotable: Another Classic 'Fact Check'
The Wall Street Journal's Notable & Quotable excerpts Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics article. It appeared in print on February 4, 2021….
Chicago's Morning Answer: The Dan Proft Show: Fact Checking The Future & Twitter Without Trump
Kalev appeared on the Dan Proft show this morning to discuss his recent RCP pieces on fact checking the future,…
ZeroHedge: Lincoln High School And The Latest Fact-Checking Pitfalls
ZeroHedge syndicated Kalev's RCP story about Abraham Lincoln High School's renaming. Read The Full Article.
Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Dataset Now Live Updating
We're excited to announce that the Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) dataset is now updating live every 30 minutes! Learn More.
Television News Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) Dataset Reaches 2 Billion Seconds Of Airtime
The Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) dataset has reached more than 2 billion seconds of airtime and climbing! Learn More.
Using The Global Relationship Graph To Examine Claims About Covid-19 Vaccination And Infertility Or Bell's Palsy
Using the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot, what can we learn about claims in English language media coverage…
Using The Global Quotation Graph To Examine Statements About Covid-19 Vaccination And Infertility Or Bell's Palsy
Using the Global Quotation Graph (GQG), what can we learn about public statements quoted in English language online media about…
Lincoln High School And The Latest Fact-Checking Pitfalls
As Internet fact-checkers have evolved from niche websites into the absolute arbitrators of “truth” on the modern web, they have…
MSNBC Covers Lincoln Project 3.5x CNN And Fox News Combined But Ignores Weaver Allegations
Since the Lincoln Project was founded in late 2019, MSNBC has mentioned it 1,064 times, compared with 159 times on CNN and…
ERF: Can Unconditional Cash Transfers Mitigate the Impact of Armed Conflict on Child Nutrition in Yemen?
This working paper by the Economic Research Forum (ERF) explores the Yemeni conflict: The “ignored” civil war in Yemen has…
Video: The Three Phases Of Covid-19 Television News Coverage: Social Distancing To Masking To Vaccines
Television news coverage of the pandemic proceeded in three stages since the start of 2020. The first stage, which can…
Video: CNN Pivots Back To Pandemic Dashboard After Inauguration
CNN's Covid-19 dashboard has become a barometer for tracking how it weighs the pandemic against other breaking stories of the…
Video: Tracking Twitter's Growth 2012-2021: Covid-19 & Election 2020
As COVID-19 began sweeping across the world last spring, Twitter experienced phenomenal growth with much of the planet’s population confined to their…