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Mentions Of “Partisanship” Have Surged During Trump’s Presidency

Mentions of “partisan” and “partisanship” increased sharply in November 2016 with the election of Donald Trump and continued steadily upwards…

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Tara Reade Has Now Completely Disappeared From Television News

Not that long ago, the #MeToo movement ensured allegations of sexual assault were frontpage news. It seems the movement’s media…

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Global News Coverage Of Covid-19 Continues To Decline

Global news coverage of Covid-19 began in earnest around January 18, accelerating February 21 and surging in early March as…

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News Coverage Of Unemployment Begins Declining

It seems the world’s attention has shifted away from unemployment over the last two weeks, at least through the eyes…

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Mentions Of "Distraction" Double Since Trump's Election

In his RealClearPolitics article yesterday, Tom Bevan notes the media's use of the term "distraction" during Trump's presidency. How much…

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Chicago's Morning Answer: The Dan Proft Show: President Trump's Executive Order

Kalev appeared on the Dan Proft show this morning to talk about his RealClearPolitics article "Twitter Raises New Questions in…

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KMOX: The Mark Reardon Show

Kalev appeared on the Mark Reardon Show this morning to talk about his RealClearPolitics article "The COVID Guidance Muddle: No…

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WashPost: Trump And His Allies Aren't Talking About The Coronavirus Death Toll Very Much

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how the media covered the grim milestone of the US Covid-19 death toll reaching…

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The COVID Guidance Muddle: No Wonder We Stand Divided

As officials across the U.S. struggle to enforce a “new normal” of mask wearing and social distancing while convincing their…

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USSC: Coronavirus Anti-Lockdown Movement Surges In The US After Donald Trump's 'Liberate' Tweet

A fascinating analysis by the United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney examining protests and Covid-19. Read…

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ABC News: Coronavirus Anti-Lockdown Movement Surges In The US After Donald Trump's 'Liberate' Tweet

A fascinating analysis of protest activity and Covid-19. Read The Full Article.

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Towards Data Science: Domestic Violence – The Shadow Pandemic Of Covid19

This fascinating analysis explores the secondary effects of the Covid-19 shutdowns. Read The Full Article.

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Omdena: AI Insights: Domestic Violence - The Shadow Pandemic Of COVID-19

Omdena uses GDELT to explore sharply rising media coverage of domestic violence in the Covid-19 era. Read The Full Article.

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Twitter Raises New Questions in Adding Warning to Trump Tweets

On Tuesday, Twitter demonstrated the breadth of the censorship powers now wielded by social media platforms. In the space of…

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USSC: Coronavirus And Protest: How COVID-19 Has Changed The Face Of American Activism

A fascinating analysis by the United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney examining how activism has changed…

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Mentions Of "In This Together" Steadily Decline

The phrase "in this together" was once the catchphrase of the Covid-19 pandemic, but mentions have been steadily decreasing since…

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ESSRA: "Belt And Road" Big Data Analysis Platform

This fascinating Chinese-language article explores work around analyzing the "Belt And Road" initiative using GDELT. Read The Full Article.

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Mentions Of "Dr" On TV News At Highest Levels In Decade

Mentions of "Dr" on television news peaked in 2014 with the Ebola outbreak, 2018 with Dr. Ford's assault accusations against…

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TV Explorer Now Displays In-Progress Results For Last 48 Hours

The Television Explorer has historically limited search results to a most recent date of 48 hours ago, accounting for the…

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TV & TV AI Explorers Now Support Two-Letter Searches

To support searches for "dr" and "md" and other titles and honorifics, we've updated the TV Explorer and TV AI…

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Mask-Wearing Guidance: A Timeline of Slow-to-Shift Messaging

Preliminary research published this week suggests widespread mask wearing in public could substantially reduce the spread of COVID-19. Yet it was not…

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Dr. Fauci Has Indeed Faded From Television News

CNN noted yesterday that Dr. Anthony Fauci has largely disappeared from television news after long being one of the primary public faces…

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GDELT Context 2.0 API Now Supports Quotation Search

The GDELT Context 2.0 API now offers an "&isquote=1" URL parameter that returns only matching sentences that also contain a…

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BigQuery Turns 10!

Google's BigQuery platform, which underlies so much of GDELT's work on understanding the world around us, turned 10 today! As…