New Hybrid Relevance Mode For DOC 2.0 API
Historically the DOC 2.0 API has sorted its results according to the default ElasticSearch textual relevancy scoring model. Given GDELT's incredibly…
Vox: Fox News Won’t Say Kavanaugh’s Accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, Is Lying. They Say She’s Misremembering.
Vox's Alvin Chang uses the Television Explorer to examine how often the major networks covered the Kavanaugh story from the…
Why Can't Facebook Do Better At Fact Checking Photos And Videos?
We have the technologies to automatically verify many aspects of photographs and videos online, from examining their provenance to verifying…
Geography Still Defines Who We Are Connected To In The Social Media Era
A new study shows the limits of social media in connecting the world and that for all their technological might,…
Peering Into The Visual Landscape Of Half A Billion News Images With Google's Cloud Inference API
What can we learn about how we “see” the world through the news by processing half a billion global news…
Peering Into The Visual Landscape Of Half A Billion News Images With Google’s Cloud Inference API
At its core, the GDELT Project is about helping us understand and make sense of the rapidly evolving world around…
WashPost: The Pattern Continues: Fox News Spends Far Less Time Discussing Trump’s Law-Breaking Allies
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how the networks differed in their coverage of Trump's criminally-charged associates. Read The Full…
Cloud Inference API Launch
We are tremendously excited to have created the demo dataset and a number of example analyses for the launch of…
Harvard: Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
A new book by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts of Harvard University uses GDELT's Television Explorer to chart…
WashPost: Cable News Coverage Of Approaching Hurricanes Is Only Sometimes Out Of Whack With Reality
The Washington Post's Philip Bump uses the Television Explorer to compare how media coverage of hurricanes lines up with their…
WashPost: Trump's 9/11 Starts Like Any Other Day – With Him Mad At Something He Saw On Fox
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how Fox News' coverage influences Trump's focus of the day. Includes a fascinating vertical…
Why Google's Inclusive Images Challenge Is So Important
Google's new data challenge targets the geographic and cultural skew in the training datasets that underlie so much of the…
Why Facebook's New User Trustworthiness Scores Are So Frightening
Facebook is transitioning from passive data archive to active profiling services provider: from offline mass surveillance facial recognition to “trust”…
What Does It Mean To Live Our Entire Lives Under Digital Surveillance?
We live in a world in which our every word and action is recorded and preserved for perpetuity by myriad…
Why Government And Social Media Platforms Must Cooperate To Fight Misinformation
The events of 2016 were the result not of an unforeseeable event or technological breakthrough, but rather of hubris and…
Why Digital Signatures Won't Prevent Deep Fakes But Will Help Repressive Governments
Fighting deep fakes with on-camera digital signatures will help repressive governments track down dissidents but do little to combat forgeries…
Is Social Media Content Moderation An Impossible Task?
Social media was portrayed as empowering all with the protections and guarantees of the Western world, but the realities of…
Why We Still Need Human Moderators In An AI-Powered World
Twitter let a violent image remain up for hours due to its overreliance on human moderation, while Facebook mistakenly removed…
RealClearPolitics: 'Deep Fakes' and the Fight for Truth Online
The future of how "deep fakes" could impact the political landscape. Read The Full Article.
How Smartphones And Social Media Taught Us It's Ok To Be Paparazzi
We live the world through our phones today, visually document our lives like photojournalists and share everything we see like…
EWTN: Does Social Media Treat Conservatives Unfairly?
Kalev appeared on EWTN News Nightly this evening to discuss social media's moderation efforts, their Congressional testimony today and why…
RealClearPolitics: Social Media's Opaque Response to Conservative-Bias Charges
Why are the data-obsessed social media platforms so reluctant to share statistics that support their narratives of ideological neutrality and…
Customer Service In The Social Media Era: Complain Publicly Or Get Nothing
The power of social media to allow an aggrieved customer the ability to reach a quarter of the Earth's population…
The New Yorker: Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance
The New Yorker's profile of Glenn Greenwald uses the GDELT Television Explorer to briefly mention that he helped popularize the phrase…