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The Divergent Media Profiles Of Trump And Biden Post-Election

How have the media profiles of Trump and Biden diverged since the election? Has the media's focus shifted from the…

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We're Talking Less About Inflation Than We Used To

As economists discuss what a Biden presidency might mean for the economy, the impact of ever-wider government spigots on inflation…

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We Haven't Talked About Debt Since November 2013

The three major national cable news channels have largely stopped talking about debt since November 2013. Discussion of the "national…

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A Look At Impeachment Talk On Television News Since Trump's Election

Within days of Donald Trump's surprise 2016 election, television news was already beginning to discuss his eventual impeachment, a topic…

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A Reminder That The Russia Story Began Four Weeks After The Election

White House watchers trying to divine President Trump's next move might do well to look at the timeline below, showing…

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WashPost: Turns Out That Media Coverage Of The Virus Wasn't Just A Ploy To Hurt Trump

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at television news coverage of the pandemic since the election. Read The Full Article.

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The Armenia Versus Azerbaijan Conflict On Television News: Who Is Covering It The Most?

Which television stations are paying the most attention to the Armenia – Azerbaijan conflict? Al Jazeera has mentioned the two…

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Chicago's Morning Answer: The Dan Proft Show: Freedom Of Speech On Social Media

Kalev appeared on the Dan Proft show this morning with guest host John Hinderaker from the Powerline Blog to discuss…

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CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Disappears In Leadup To Election

Beginning October 27th, CNN sharply decreased the daily airtime of its COVID-19 tracking dashboard, dropping to zero from November 4…

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World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers: Big Data, Big Stories

Kalev will be speaking at the 2020 World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers in a talk titled "Big Data,…

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Improved Unicode Escaping In Visual Global Knowledge Graph EXIF Data

Historically, the Visual Global Knowledge Graph has embedded extracted EXIF metadata in standard UTF8 JSON encoding. This has proved challenging…

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A Compilation Of All EXIF Tags In The Visual Global Knowledge Graph In 2020

Since its launch in December 2015, the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has analyzed more than 600 million images from…

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Improved OCR Language Support In The Visual Global Knowledge Graph

Building on advances in Google's Cloud Vision API OCR, which today supports more than 220 languages, the Visual Global Knowledge…

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DyERNIE: Dynamic Evolution of Riemannian Manifold Embeddings For Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

This paper by researchers at LMU Munich, Siemens AG and Technical University of Munich uses GDELT as a dataset to…

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Television News Never Stopped Talking About The Election After 2016

In the aftermath of the 2014 election, mentions of "election" on television news quickly dropped off to its previous levels….

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Mentions Of "Illegitimate" Soar During Trump Era On Television News

The term "illegitimate" rarely appeared on television news over Obama's tenure, though MSNBC used it more than its peers, but…

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Immigration All But Disappears From Television News Since August 2019

Immigration has ebbed and flowed over the past decade on television news, increasing in early 2013 and remaining elevated since…

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Comparing "Blue Wave" In 2017-2018 And 2020 On Television News

The term "blue wave" first emerged on television news in November 2017, ramping up almost linearly through the 2018 midterms….

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Election News Displaces Covid-19 Coverage On Television News

Beginning this past Sat., Covid-19 began to fade from television news, all but disappearing since Weds, reaching the lowest levels…

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Mentions Of Electoral College Still Below 2016 Peak Levels

With the election once again hinging on the electoral college, it is worth noting that television news mentions are exceeding…

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Visual Global Knowledge Graph Upgrading To GDELT 3.0 Infrastructure

Just as the Global Difference Graph was upgraded to the GDELT 3.0 infrastructure earlier this week, we're excited to announce…

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The New Humanitarian: What's Being Drowned Out By The US Election

A look at just a handful of the stories from around the world that aren't being covered this week and…

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Global Difference Graph Now Running On GDELT 3.0 Infrastructure

We're excited to announce that the Global Difference Graph (GDG) is the first GDELT core system to be running on…

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Trump And Biden Neck And Neck In Television News Mentions

Mentions of Donald Trump and Joe Biden on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News this year have exploded since initially being…