The GDELT Project

How Much Attention Is Collusion Really Getting?

With the political discourse this week once again turning to Russia, it is worth looking back at NBC’s report last month that the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee had not discovered any direct evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Despite the report’s significance, it generated little attention, prompting allegations in some quarters of media bias. Yet, looking a bit closer, we find that the committee has actually garnered little media attention for the past two years and that coverage of collusion has remained fairly steady since 2017.

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