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Television News Inventory Files Now Available In BigQuery

The Television News inventory files are now available in Google's BigQuery platform, updated every morning, making it possible to perform…

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Compiling A Master List Of Social Media In The News 2016-2019

Following on our release earlier today of all of the Donald Trump tweets found in the worldwide news coverage monitored…

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Charting The Popularity Of Donald Trump Tweets In The News 2016-2019

On a typical day around the world, how many news articles link to a tweet by Donald Trump? Since April…

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Compiling A List Of All The Donald Trump Tweets In The News 2016-2019

Since April 20, 2016, GDELT's GKG 2.0 has compiled all of the outlinks in the body text of each article,…

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Tracking Media And Search Attention To Unemployment

Unemployment is a common measure of the economic health of developed countries that also receives considerable media and search interest,…

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'Climate Crisis': The Media's New Catchphrase for Climate Change

CNN held its “climate crisis” town-hall event Wednesday night, offering leading Democratic presidential contenders a chance to lay out their…

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BBVA: Geo-World: Conflict & Protest August 2019

BBVA's August 2019 Geo-World: Conflict & Protest report summarizes the state of global conflict and civil unrest. Read The Full…

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ISWC2019: Bootstrapping The Publication Of Linked Data Streams

Researchers Riccardo Tommasini, Mohamed Ragab, Alessandro Falcetta, Emanuele Della Valle and Sherif Sakr published "Bootstrapping The Publication Of Linked Data…

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New August 2019 GKG 2.0 Themes Lookup

Advanced users are frequently interested in a list of all of the themes found in the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph…

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Social Media Is About Monologues Over Dialogues But Learning Only Comes From Listening

One of the most socially important lessons a child learns as they grow up is not the mastery of language…

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What Viral Scams Can Teach Us About Information Literacy

Solving the Web’s problems from fake news and deep fakes to foreign influence and digital fraud will require a newly…

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From Fact Checkers To Fake News: Social Media’s Dream Of A Voice For All Has Failed

As the deluge of fake news and foreign influence washed across the digital shores, social platforms have begun to belatedly…

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Axios: Andrew Yang Gets Media Cold Shoulder

Axios looks at how candidates' polling, tweets mentioning and online and television coverage compares. Read The Full Article.

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AI Is Like Encryption: It Can’t Be Regulated Out Of Existence

The simple fact is that AI cannot be regulated. Legislation can help curb specific applications in regulated industries like housing…

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A Look Back At How Google’s AI Sees A Week Of Television News And The World Of AI Video Understanding

Analyzing a week of television news through all of Google’s AI tools, what lessons can we learn about the state…

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Biden Leapfrogs Warren, Leads Media Coverage Once Again

Last week Elizabeth Warren briefly displaced Joe Biden as the most-covered 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, beating him in both evening…

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FiveThirtyEight: Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?

FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.

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Using The Cloud To Explore The Linguistic Patterns Of Half A Trillion Words Of News Homepage Hyperlinks

What would it look like to convert a year and a half of homepage links totaling more than half a…

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The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG): 134 Billion URLs And Three-Quarters Of A Trillion Datapoints

GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) launched in March of last year, now stands at more than 134 billion records. With each…

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Announcing The 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Outlet Ngram Dataset

Following in the footsteps of the 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Linguistic Ngram Dataset released yesterday, the 2018-2019 Global Frontpage…

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New 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Linguistic Inventory Sheet

The original Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) inventory file was created with just two and a half week's worth of data,…

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Why Do We Keep Falling For Falsified Tweets?

The continued proliferation of falsified social media screen captures and the lack of even the most basic of efforts to…

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Announcing The 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Linguistic Ngram Dataset

On March 2, 2018 we unveiled the GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) which scans 50,000 news homepages around the world…

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Trump 'Lies,' Biden 'Slips' – But Fact Checks Tell Different Story

When a politician stretches the truth, did he “misspeak” or did he “lie”? The way in which fact-checkers frame the…