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Using The Global Relationship Graph To Track Mask Mandate Reaction

How are mask mandates being described in the news? Using the new Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot…

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Conspiracy In The Time Of Corona: Automatic Detection Of Emerging COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories In Social Media And The News

This fascinating analysis uses GDELT as an index to Covid-19 news, performing topic modeling on the resulting coverage and examining…

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Global Relationship Graph: Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot

This past July we debuted the Global Relationship Graph (GRG), an experimental new initiative in codifying the factual claims and relationships made…

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The Twitter Presidency: How Trump Shapes TV News Agenda

Just under a century ago, confronting an antagonistic press that opposed him at every turn, President Franklin Roosevelt turned to the then-nascent…

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Immigration Disappears From Television News In September 2019

Immigration has been a major topic in news coverage since Donald Trump elevated it into a signature campaign issue in…

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Filibustering Mentions On Television News At Decade-Long Low

For all the recent talk of eliminating the filibuster if Democrats take the Senate, on television news over the last…

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Fox News Mentions "Court Packing" Four Times As Much As CNN And MSNBC Combined

With the nomination of Amy Barrett to the US Supreme Court, the idea of "court packing" has gained attention again,…

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Global Relationship Graph: Open IE 5.1 Sample Dataset

This past July we debuted the Global Relationship Graph (GRG), an experimental new initiative in codifying the factual claims and…

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Climate Change Slowly Returning To Television News

Climate change has been enjoying a surge in television news attention since October 2018, but sharply dropped in October 2019,…

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Television News Interest In Amy Barrett Wanes

As the confirmation of Amy Barrett appears all but inevitable, television news coverage of her has faded since last Friday….

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McConnell Versus Pelosi On Television News

Comparing the combined CNN, MSNBC and Fox News monthly airtime devoted to Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell over the past…

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Television News Coverage Of Black Lives Matter Fades

The Black Lives Matter movement received widespread media coverage since November 2014, peaking in August 2015 and July 2016, before…

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One-Shot Learning For Temporal Knowledge Graphs

This study by researchers at USC's Information Sciences Institute examples temporal knowledge graphs: Most real-world knowledge graphs are characterized by…

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Tracing The Evolving Discussion Of Misinformation, Disinformation And "Fake News" On Television News

Three of the most popular terms of the last few years for referring to false information have been "misinformation" (typically…

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Google ML Summit 2020 Panel

Kalev spoke on the morning panel of Google's ML Summit 2020 today alongside Google Brain Research Scholar Sara Hooker and…

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Intelligencer: Trump Tries To Make 'Laptop From Hell' The New Hillary Emails. It Won't Work.

New York Magazine's Intelligencer includes a graph by the Washington Post's Philip Bump analyzing media coverage of the Hunter Biden…

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WashPost: We've Reached The Tony Bobulinski Stage Of The Campaign

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores media coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop. Read The Full Article.

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Nigeria Receives Little TV News Attention In US

The growing protests in Nigeria have received little attention on CNN, MSNBC or Fox News this month, with just 10…

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JCSS: Around The world In 60 Days: An Exploratory Study Of impact Of COVID-19 On Online Global News Sentiment

This fascinating study by Amartya Chakraborty and Sunanda Bose in the Journal of Computational Social Science examines in detail how…

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VGEGV2 File Listing Format Upgraded

As we announced last month, the inventory file format for the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 has now been upgraded…

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Webs Of Influence: Secondary Stakeholder Actions And Cross-National Corporate Social Performance

We analyze the relationship between the actions and interactions of secondary stakeholders with an interest in corporate social performance (CSP)…

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Keyword Searching Television News Trump Tweet Appearances

Last week we released an aligned dataset of Trump tweets appearing on television news using the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0…

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GDG DevFest Doha 2020: Using Google's Cloud AI APIs To Watch, Visualize & Forecast The World In Realtime

Kalev spoke today at the 2020 GDG DevFest Doha! You can watch the video below:

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Mentions Of "Unhinged" Increase In Trump Era

Mentions of the word "unhinged" increased sharply in the Trump era, though interestingly Fox and MSNBC use it rougly equal…