WashPost: Trump And His Allies Are Much More Interested In Talking Flynn Than Coronavirus
Philip Bump's latest analysis for the Washington Post examines how Fox News has shifted its coverage from Covid-19 to Michael…
Announcing The GDELT Context 2.0 API
We're incredibly excited to announce today the release of the GDELT Context 2.0 API! This newest addition to the stable…
China Data Institute: Understanding The Covid-19 Data Of The US And China
This video by the China Data Institute surveys datasets around Covid-19 including GDELT. Watch The Full Video.
A Four-Month Look At Part Of Speech Distribution In A Multilingual World
In January, we visualized one week's worth of the part of speech distribution of the 11 languages annotated by Google's…
NY-NLP: NLP At Planetary Scale: GDELT's Language Understanding Datasets
Kalev is the May 11th speaker for the Natural Language Processing – New York (NY-NLP) meetup. GDELT today encompasses more…
Computing The Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD) Scores For Online News In 2020
With a single SQL query and the Online News Ngram Dataset, its possible to run large-scale macro emotional assessments of online…
Using GDELT’s Data Ecosystem To Understand The World: Best Practices & Workflows
GDELT today encompasses more than 3 trillion datapoints spanning more than 200 years across 152 languages. Its datasets span text,…
Comparing News Coverage Of Media Industry Unemployment With Rise In “Opening Up” Coverage
The journalism world in the US has been hit hard by the economic damage from shutting down the economy to…
Mentions Of "Herd Immunity" Steady
After rocking into the media lexicon March 13th and peaking a day later, "herd immunity" has remained relatively stable ever…
Mentions Of “Wuhan Lab” Back On Television News Though Fox Still Takes The Lead
President Trump helped popularize the phrase “Wuhan Lab” as the administration promoted the theory that Covid-19 was either created in…
Examining Trends in Moral News Framing Across a Decade of Television Coverage
Yesterday we released Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary scores for television news. To help you understand how to use these new…
Mapping The Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD) "care_sent" Score For Television News In 2020
Using the new Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary scores for television news, it is trivial to map how the moral foundations…
Only Fox News Seems Interested In Tara Reade’s Biden Accusation
Two years ago, Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh received wall-to-wall coverage on television news for nearly an…
Mired In Semantics, Fact Checkers Miss The COVID-19 Moment
The COVID-19 pandemic would seem tailor-made for the world's fact-checking organizations to mitigate the spread of falsehoods at a time…
A Closer Look At Television News Coverage Of Christine Blasey Ford’s Allegations
The 2018 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh unexpectedly morphed into a referendum on #MeToo’s impact on politics…
#MeToo Interest Fading Away On Television News
The #MeToo movement was once everywhere in the news, seemingly bringing down another powerful figure each week. Yet since its…
Television News Losing Interest In Women's March
The aftermath of Donald Trump’s election saw the birth of both the Women’s March and #MeToo as a rallying cry…
New Signs Of Life In Media Coverage Of Campaign 2020
The 2020 presidential race all but vanished from television news on March 12th as the Covid-19 pandemic consumed all available…
A Decade Of Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD) Scores For Television News
With a single SQL query and the Television News Ngram Dataset, its possible to run large-scale macro emotional assessments of…
Elon Musk and Twitter: A Censorship Double Standard?
Social media companies have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by rolling out new policies dramatically expanding their censorship powers. And…
FiveThirtyEight: How The Media Has – And Hasn’t – Covered Tara Reade's Allegation
FiveThirtyEight explores coverage of the Tara Reade allegations. Read The Full Article.
Mentions Of Immigration Hit Three-Year Lows
Mentions of immigration in worldwide online news coverage have dropped to their lowest point in the last three years. Live…
Fox News Takes Lead On Mentions Of Bats
As discussion of the origins of Covid-19 has increasingly centered on bats, mentions of the mammals have really picked up…
Using The Global Quotation Graph To Track Statements About Hydroxychloroquine
Using the new Global Quotation Graph it requires just a single line of SQL to compile a list of public…