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BBVA: Geo-World: Conflict & Protest August 2019

BBVA's August 2019 Geo-World: Conflict & Protest report summarizes the state of global conflict and civil unrest. Read The Full…

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ISWC2019: Bootstrapping The Publication Of Linked Data Streams

Researchers Riccardo Tommasini, Mohamed Ragab, Alessandro Falcetta, Emanuele Della Valle and Sherif Sakr published "Bootstrapping The Publication Of Linked Data…

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New August 2019 GKG 2.0 Themes Lookup

Advanced users are frequently interested in a list of all of the themes found in the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph…

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Social Media Is About Monologues Over Dialogues But Learning Only Comes From Listening

One of the most socially important lessons a child learns as they grow up is not the mastery of language…

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What Viral Scams Can Teach Us About Information Literacy

Solving the Web’s problems from fake news and deep fakes to foreign influence and digital fraud will require a newly…

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From Fact Checkers To Fake News: Social Media’s Dream Of A Voice For All Has Failed

As the deluge of fake news and foreign influence washed across the digital shores, social platforms have begun to belatedly…

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Axios: Andrew Yang Gets Media Cold Shoulder

Axios looks at how candidates' polling, tweets mentioning and online and television coverage compares. Read The Full Article.

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AI Is Like Encryption: It Can’t Be Regulated Out Of Existence

The simple fact is that AI cannot be regulated. Legislation can help curb specific applications in regulated industries like housing…

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A Look Back At How Google’s AI Sees A Week Of Television News And The World Of AI Video Understanding

Analyzing a week of television news through all of Google’s AI tools, what lessons can we learn about the state…

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Biden Leapfrogs Warren, Leads Media Coverage Once Again

Last week Elizabeth Warren briefly displaced Joe Biden as the most-covered 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, beating him in both evening…

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FiveThirtyEight: Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?

FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.

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Using The Cloud To Explore The Linguistic Patterns Of Half A Trillion Words Of News Homepage Hyperlinks

What would it look like to convert a year and a half of homepage links totaling more than half a…

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The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG): 134 Billion URLs And Three-Quarters Of A Trillion Datapoints

GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) launched in March of last year, now stands at more than 134 billion records. With each…

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Announcing The 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Outlet Ngram Dataset

Following in the footsteps of the 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Linguistic Ngram Dataset released yesterday, the 2018-2019 Global Frontpage…

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New 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Linguistic Inventory Sheet

The original Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) inventory file was created with just two and a half week's worth of data,…

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Why Do We Keep Falling For Falsified Tweets?

The continued proliferation of falsified social media screen captures and the lack of even the most basic of efforts to…

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Announcing The 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Linguistic Ngram Dataset

On March 2, 2018 we unveiled the GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) which scans 50,000 news homepages around the world…

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Trump 'Lies,' Biden 'Slips' – But Fact Checks Tell Different Story

When a politician stretches the truth, did he “misspeak” or did he “lie”? The way in which fact-checkers frame the…

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AI & Big Data’s Hoarding Mentality Creates A New Era Of Cyber Risks

Beneath the never-ending headlines about data breaches today is the simple fact that companies are collecting, curating and hoarding ever…

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A Reminder That More Data Does Not Necessarily Lead To Better Outcomes

Companies are taking great risks to hoard ever-increasing volumes of data about their customers. The real question is whether all…

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We Must Restore Provenance To The Web To Combat Digital Falsehoods

Beneath the rise of misinformation, disinformation, deep fakes, digital falsehoods and foreign influence today is the loss of provenance on…

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AI Correctness Is Not The Same As AI Ethics

As AI is deployed to sensitive areas like military, judicial and surveillance use, governments and companies have responded that so…

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Why Do We Trust Online Images And Video?

Our blind trust in the imagery and video we see online lies at the root of the rise of deep…

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Why Would Deep Fakes Be Any More Damaging Than Fake Text?

In an online world where an anonymous satirical Website can launch a global story that the Pope endorsed Donald Trump,…