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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,…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Video: A 12-Year Look At @realDonaldTrump

Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter on Jan. 8, bringing to an end to perhaps the world’s most prolific…

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Video: Fox News Has Covered Portland 6.7 Times More Than CNN And MSNBC Combined This Year

The timeline below shows the total number of mentions of Portland, Oregon on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since the start of…

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Video: "Ask Your Doctor": How Medical Television Commercials Faded In The Early Pandemic

The timeline below tracks the seconds of daily airtime in which the phrase "ask your doctor" is visible in the…

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Video: Tracing #StopTheSteal, #BLM, #Trump, #Biden And Other 2020 Hashtags On Twitter

Using data from Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media, a series of popular hashtags are traced on Twitter from Feb….

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The Three Phases Of Covid-19 Television News Coverage: Social Distancing To Masking To Vaccines

Television news coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic can be seen to follow three distinct stages, emphasizing social distancing at the…

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Television Versus Online News Coverage Of Vaccines

How has television news coverage of Covid-19 vaccines compared with online coverage? The timeline below shows the percentage of airtime across CNN,…

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CNN Pivots Back To Pandemic Dashboard After Inauguration

CNN's Covid-19 dashboard has become a barometer for tracking how it weighs the pandemic vis-a-vis other breaking stories of the…

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"Ask Your Doctor": How Medical Television Commercials Faded In The Early Pandemic

The timeline below tracks the seconds of daily airtime in which the phrase "ask your doctor" is visible in the onscreen text….

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Fox News Barely Mentions QAnon

QAnon was first mentioned on television news in August 2018, but really took off in July 2020. CNN and MSNBC have each…

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Trump Remains Front And Center On Television News

Despite a week and a half as a former president and three weeks without his Twitter account, Donald Trump remains…

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Tracing #StopTheSteal, #BLM, #Trump, #Biden And Other 2020 Hashtags On Twitter

The graphs below trace select Twitter hashtags using data from Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media, tracing the percentage of daily…

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Tracking Twitter's Growth: Did Trump Ban Cause A Dip?

As COVID-19 began sweeping across the world last spring, Twitter experienced phenomenal growth with much of the planet’s population confined…