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La Vanguardia: The Media Prefer Supermodels
La Vanguardia covers GDELT's Global Visual Knowledge Graph, exploring the kind of imagery the global news media prefers. It was…
Trump's Tweeting And Government Records In The Digital Era
Stream-of-consciousness live tweeting by our political leaders offers us a unique humanized look at our elected leaders, but also gives…
When Facebook Censors Journalists
As Facebook increasing role as global editor-in-chief expands to censoring journalists, what might the future of the fourth estate look…
The Agenda Setting Power Of Fake News
In a study published in New Media & Society, Chris Vargo, Lei Guo and Michelle Amazeen use GDELT to explore…
How Estonia's E-Voting System Could Be The Future
Estonia has offered online voting for more than a decade with great success and some unique security twists that could…
Baltimore Sun Article on NSA Leaking
Kalev was quoted in a recent Baltimore Sun article on alleged NSA leaker Reality Winner, talking about the modern culture…
Will The Coming Drone Swarms Eliminate Physical Privacy?
What are the privacy implications of a future in which millions of cameras fly overhead and could drone operators make…
Realtime Package Tracking: Insufficient Context Or A Case Of Consumer Data Overload?
Today the most mundane Amazon purchase broadcasts a minute-by-minute documentary of its whereabouts as it travels to its destination, but…
Should Facebook Simply Stop Moderating Its Platform?
Is Facebook’s approach of hiring an army of human reviewers to enforce a single universal standard developed in secret that…
Selected For United Nations Data for Climate Action Challenge
We are tremendously excited to have been selected for the United Nations "Data for Climate Action" challenge! Over the coming…
Television Explorer: Near-Realtime Updates & Trending Analytics
We're excited to announce two major updates to the Television Explorer that debuted over this past weekend: realtime updates and our new…
What The Leaked Facebook Rulebook Tells Us About Why It Isn't Combatting Online Violence
The more than 100 confidential Facebook documents leaked to The Guardian illustrate why content moderation is so hard and why…
Google's New 180 Petaflop Deep Learning Cloud And The Future Of Academic Computing
With Google’s announcement last week of its new 180 petaflop open deep learning cloud, what future does the traditional academic…
Was The WannaCry Worm An Early Preview Of Skynet?
As the US Government works to develop “lethal” cyberweapons capable of opening dams and triggering nuclear plant meltdowns, could the…
Know-Evolve: Deep Temporal Reasoning for Dynamic Knowledge Graphs
This paper by researchers at the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology explores reasoning over time in…
Will Kushner's White House Innovation Effort Finally Fix Government's Innovation Problem?
The US Government has a reputation of the place technology ideas go to die and data is put to pasture…
Project Sailor Moon Shiny App
Donny Chen and Yixin Zhang created this really neat Shiny app with a number of great visualizations. Under the hood…
New "Showcase" Format For GDELT GEO 2.0 API
We're excited to announce today the debut of the new "showcase" format in the GDELT GEO 2.0 API! This new…
Dev Fest DC 2017
Kalev spoke at DevFest DC today on how GDELT uses Google Cloud Platform, especially tools like BigQuery and Google's AI…
How Facebook Secretly Turned Us All Into Digital Lab Rats
The Australian's expose that Facebook researchers conducted secret emotional marketing research on young children to identify their most vulnerable moments…
Can AI Rescue Us From Violent Images Online?
With all of the recent conversation about depictions of violence deluging the online world, can AI offer a solution? Read…
Will Twitter Replace The Photojournalist?
Over the past two years the mainstream journalism world has increasingly turned to Twitter and Instagram for images of breaking…
Mapping Global Pollution And Natural Disasters Through AI And News Images
How advances in deep learning can be used to watch the daily firehose of global news imagery to catalog illegal…
GDELT GEO 2.0 API Debuts!
We are immensely excited today to announce the debut of the first of the GDELT 2.0 APIs: the GDELT GEO…