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Global Media Coverage Of The Turkish Earthquake At Two And A Half Weeks

How have the global media continued to cover the Turkish earthquake at the 2.5-week mark? Global mentions of the earthquake…

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Visual Explorer: A Decade Of Russia Today Transcripts For Narrative Analysis

We are tremendously excited to announce today that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, we are making…

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The Politics of Rejection: Explaining Chinese Import Refusals

Health and safety standards offer a convenient means by which governments can credibly claim to be protecting the population, even…

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Visual Explorer: New Russian TV News Transcript Collection Announcement Tomorrow

Stay tuned for an exciting announcement tomorrow about a massive new Russian television news transcript archive!

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Visual Explorer: Announcing The January 6th Committee Video Collection

In collaboration with the Internet Archive, we're excited to announce today that the video portions of the Archive's January 6th…

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Spinmeisters Of Iran: Becoming A High-Power Industrial Laser Exporter In The Face Of Sanctions

An interesting story on Iranian state television channel IRINN today tells the story of how Iran, dependent on foreign countries…

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"Cold War" Rising On TV News

BBVA's Alvaro Ortiz charts how the "Cold War" is rising again on TV news. View The Full Tweet.

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ChatGPT In News Coverage & Search

Global online news coverage mentioning ChatGPT begins on November 30th and picks up sharply from December 4th, then enters a…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Summarizing Russian Television News – Asking ChatGPT To Explain "60 Minutes"

As part of our ongoing ChatGPT experiments, we explored using cascading summarization to distill a 2.5-hour episode of Russia 1's…

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ChatGPT Experiments: When Russian Television News Triggers An OpenAI "Content Policy Violation"

As we continue our ChatGPT experiments, in one experiment today we were using ChatGPT to summarize a Russian news broadcast…

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What Does It Mean To Be A Google Developer Expert (GDE)?

Its really about inspiring others. Its really about pushing the boundaries of what's possible. View Video.  

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The Global Media Slowly Moves On From The Turkish Earthquake: A Narrative Quick Look

Global media coverage of major stories like natural disasters tends to closely follow a standard mathematical formula, with deviations typically…

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Fox News Never Pivoted Back To Trump & His 2024 Announcement Flops

The timeline below shows total mentions of Donald Trump across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since the start of 2021….

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IJNET: News Coverage Of Systemic Gender Gaps Is Virtually Nonexistent. We Can Change That.

A powerful article in IJNET (International Journalists' Network) by Luba Kassova explores gender gaps in media coverage. Read The Full…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Autoregressive Large Language Models (AR-LLMs) And The Limits Of Reasoning As Structured Summarization

As we continue to expand our rapidly growing archive of ChatGPT experiments, we can see that, like Whisper, the panacea…

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Video: CNS Research Showcase: Television As Data: Opening The Internet Archive’s Two Decade Archive Of Global Television News Spanning 50 Countries To Journalists & Scholars Through AI, Analytics, Search & Visualization

Kalev spoke last month on January 23th at Indiana University's Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS) on GDELT's collaborations with…

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How Is The Turkish Earthquake Being Covered One Week Later?

How is the Turkish earthquake being covered one week later? If we assume that nearly all earthquake coverage over the…

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TV News Coverage Of Crime Continues Rising Across CNN, MSNBC And Fox News

While Fox News is often portrayed as excessively fixating on crime, it turns out that overall its month-to-month steady mentions…

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Elon Musk Vs Joe Biden: Musk Gets A Fraction Of TV News Mentions But Beat Biden In Searches Late Last Year

Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter has given him an even larger public persona. How do his media mentions and search…

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UFOs & Chinese Balloons On TV News

How are the Chinese balloon and other balloon and "UFO" sightings being covered on TV news? The timeline below shows…

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ChatGPT Experiments: Reasoning & Negation – Summarization's Strengths & Surprising Limits

ChatGPT has demonstrated a surprising ability to answer questions that involve basic reasoning and negation, leading to considerable public commentary…

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Covid-19 Mentions Remain Flat On Television News

Weekly mentions of Covid-19 have remained relatively flat for nearly a year.

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ChatGPT Experiments: How ChatGPT Handles Criminal Allegations Against Public Figures

How does ChatGPT respond when posed questions about criminal allegations against public figures? Both President Joe Biden and Supreme Court…

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ChatGPT Experiments: ChatGPT's Thoughts On Which Presidents Are Truthful & Reliable Sources

What is ChatGPT's opinion on which recent US presidents were "truthful" and/or "reliable sources" of information? This tests  how public…