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Talking To GDELT Through Knowledge Graphs

An interesting paper by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL): In this work we study various Retrieval Augmented Regeneration…

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Television News Visual Explorer: TTXT Captioning Mode Annotations Now Updating

We're excited to announce that our TTXT captioning mode annotation files are now being continually updated for all captioned broadcasts…

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AFP: Fake Marco Rubio audio on Starlink, Ukraine spreads online

A video spreading online purports to show US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowing on CNN to persuade billionaire Elon…

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Behind The Scenes: Identifying Failed Recordings: Why Traditional Video Verification Tools Fail

This past December we explored a range of approaches for detecting failed and corrupted television news recordings, from curation metadata…

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Politifact: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”

As Fox News viewers waited to hear President Donald Trump begin his address to a joint session of Congress, commentator…

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MarketWatch: Trump’s first quarter of GDP is looking shaky. His allies are already trying to shoot the messenger.

It’s looking like the first assessment of the economy for President Donald Trump’s second administration is going to look shaky….

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Uncertainty in the Bond Market: A Proposal for Identifying Bond Narratives with GDELT

This study analyzes the relationship between financial news narratives and US government bond market volatility, as measured by the MOVE…

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Television News Visual Explorer: October 2024 – Present + Ongoing Updates: Phase 1

We're excited to announce that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we have completed initial processing of…

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WashPost: The Right-Wing Media Machine Is Hitting A Wall

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Trump. Read The Full Article.

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Snopes: Drone Video Truly Shows NYC Protest Against Trump And Musk

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about a New York City protest. Read The…

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Snopes: Unfounded Rumor Claims Pete Hegseth Drank Alcohol During NATO News Conference

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about Pete Hegseth. Read The Full Article.

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Behind The Scenes: Launching A New Autohealing Unified Health Infrastructure

We are excited today to announce the launch of our new automatic monitoring and healing unified health infrastructure that underpins…

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Snopes: Fact Check: Trump WH Falsely Claimed USAID Funded 'Transgender Comic Book' In Peru

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about USAID funding. Read The Full Article.

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Snopes: Yes, Trump Rebuked Obama in 2012 for 'Constantly Issuing Executive Orders'

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about Trump and executive orders. Read The Full…

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Behind The Scenes: A First Glimpse At ASR Statistics From 2.5 Million Hours Of Global TV News Spanning 50 Countries & A Quarter Century

Last year we announced the successful completion of Large Speech Model (LSM)-powered ASR over the totality of the uncaptioned Television…

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Behind The Scenes: A Look At 16 Years Of Advertising Density On Television News

We are tremendously excited to announce today the completion of our analysis of captioning mode information across the totality of…

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Vox: Why Some Immigrants Want Fewer Immigrants

A Vox look at immigration. Read The Full Article.

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Behind The Scenes: 1.9 Million Hours & 13.8 Billion Words Of Closed Captioning Spanning 17 Years Of Television News

Yesterday we previewed some initial statistics from our work identifying and removing advertisements from closed captioning transcripts across the TV…

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Behind The Scenes: Some Initial Archive-Scale Closed Captioning Statistics

Only a portion of the TV News Archive's broadcasts contain broadcaster-provided closed captioning, but by virtue of being largely human-transcribed…

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PolitiFact: Early Reports of Four Survivors Show “This DC Plane Crash Story Isn’t Adding Up.”

A PolitiFact look at the plane crash in DC. Read The Full Article.

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At-Scale OCR Of Television News: 18.8 Billion Seconds Of Global Television News OCR'd For $71K Vs $47M

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

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NBC News: How 'Dr. Phil' suddenly became so outspoken about immigration

An analysis of Dr. Phil's statements on immigration. Read The Full Article.

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Snopes: Misleading Rumor Claims Trump Admin Found 75K-80K 'Missing' Migrant Children

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about migrant children. Read The Full Article.

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Politifact: Republican leaders want to put conditions on California wildfire aid. Is there precedent for that?

A Politifact analysis on California wildfire aid. Read The Full Article.