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Only Fox News Seems Interested In Tara Reade’s Biden Accusation
Two years ago, Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh received wall-to-wall coverage on television news for nearly an…
Mired In Semantics, Fact Checkers Miss The COVID-19 Moment
The COVID-19 pandemic would seem tailor-made for the world's fact-checking organizations to mitigate the spread of falsehoods at a time…
A Closer Look At Television News Coverage Of Christine Blasey Ford’s Allegations
The 2018 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh unexpectedly morphed into a referendum on #MeToo’s impact on politics…
#MeToo Interest Fading Away On Television News
The #MeToo movement was once everywhere in the news, seemingly bringing down another powerful figure each week. Yet since its…
Television News Losing Interest In Women's March
The aftermath of Donald Trump’s election saw the birth of both the Women’s March and #MeToo as a rallying cry…
New Signs Of Life In Media Coverage Of Campaign 2020
The 2020 presidential race all but vanished from television news on March 12th as the Covid-19 pandemic consumed all available…
A Decade Of Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD) Scores For Television News
With a single SQL query and the Television News Ngram Dataset, its possible to run large-scale macro emotional assessments of…
Elon Musk and Twitter: A Censorship Double Standard?
Social media companies have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by rolling out new policies dramatically expanding their censorship powers. And…
FiveThirtyEight: How The Media Has – And Hasn’t – Covered Tara Reade's Allegation
FiveThirtyEight explores coverage of the Tara Reade allegations. Read The Full Article.
Mentions Of Immigration Hit Three-Year Lows
Mentions of immigration in worldwide online news coverage have dropped to their lowest point in the last three years. Live…
Fox News Takes Lead On Mentions Of Bats
As discussion of the origins of Covid-19 has increasingly centered on bats, mentions of the mammals have really picked up…
Using The Global Quotation Graph To Track Statements About Hydroxychloroquine
Using the new Global Quotation Graph it requires just a single line of SQL to compile a list of public…
Announcing The Global Quotation Graph
We are tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the GDELT Global Quotation Graph, which compiles quoted statements in…
Hong Kong Remains Off Media Radar
Mentions of Hong Kong on television news began June 9, 2019 and ended November 29, 2019, with BBC covering them…
Rod Arquette Show Radio Interview On Tara Reade Coverage
Kalev joined the Rod Arquette show today to discuss his RealClearPolitics analysis of Tara Reade coverage. Listen.
Building An Open Resources Repository For COVID-19 Research
This collaborative effort by researchers at a number of universities endeavors to create a centralized database of Covid-19-related datasets: The…
Biden vs. Kavanaugh: How the #MeToo Numbers Stack Up
Three years ago, the #MeToo movement was everywhere, with powerful men facing public reckonings seemingly on a weekly basis. Two…
New Twitter Censorship Rules Raise Transparency Questions
After years of being on the defensive over data breaches, privacy invasion, censorship and monopoly concerns, social media platforms are…
Updated Dr.'s Chronology From Television News OCR
We've updated our chronology of Dr.'s from the onscreen OCR'd text of television news that we first released last week….
ChainNews: Who Is Using The Term "Chinese Virus"? This Is A Thought-Provoking Research Result
This Chinese-language article looks at how Covid-19 has been framed in the media, especially the use of terms like "Chinese…
RealClearHealth: Data Is Key To Containing COVID-19 And Preventing Next Pandemic
An exploration of data and Covid-19. Read The Full Article.
The Tennessee Star: Commentary: Big Tech, Privacy, and Power
The Tennessee Star published Rachel Bovard's commentary about the shift towards ever-greater censorship of social platforms. Read The Full Article.
60 Minutes: The Computer Algorithm That Was Among The First To Detect The Coronavirus Outbreak
CBS' "60 Minutes" profiles how BlueDot sent one of the first very alerts of Covid-19. BlueDot uses its own machine…
Global Multilingual Covid-19 Online News Narrative Dataset Now Updating
Our global multilingual Covid-19 online news narratives dataset that includes the URLs and titles of worldwide news coverage about the…