The GDELT Project

Combining fulltext geocoding with the power of the cloud we can transform 126 billion words of news coverage from a…

Having spent more than a decade mapping the world through the lens of textual geography, we've become fascinated with the…

Even as Facebook takes steps to reign in mass academic harvesting of private user data, those efforts are running up…

When mapping the locations of the world’s news outlets, the difference between geographic focus and geographic location offers a powerful…

Social media has a terrorism problem, but the platforms’ overreliance on AI is blinding them, public confusion and lack of…

GDELT is used as one of the datasets being analyzed in a paper titled "Online Continuous-Time Tensor Factorization Based on…

Given GDELT's incredibly unique ability to peer across the world's languages courtesy of its mass machine translation infrastructure, a common…

In 2015 we created a map of the geography of the world's media as seen through a year of GDELT's…

While we tend to think of geographic locations as having just one name, in reality they can have dozens or…

Three years ago we showed off the results of a singularly incredible BigQuery query, courtesy of the one and only…

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores the differences in what politicians are talking about versus what cable television news is…

In the aftermath of accusations a Facebook security employee was misusing his access to stalk women, it turns out the…

Google’s new Duplex AI assistant opens up an entirely new world of conversational systems that can interact autonomously with humans…

Social media platforms like Facebook are increasingly betting their futures on AI-powered moderation, but could those tools actually be making…

Vox's Alvin Chang explores how the networks have been covering the Stormy Daniels story. Read The Full Article.

GDPR's rollout is not only rolling back the prior protections its citizens enjoyed, but is firmly entrenching, under legal protection,…

Last year Facebook tried reframing facial recognition from a privacy debate into a major security tool that would stop fraudulent…

Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics piece is an interview with PolitiFact Editor Angie Holan to explore her take on the fact checking…

Even as Cambridge University's ethics panel rejected Kogan’s Facebook research for lacking informed consent, the academic community condemns Facebook’s new…

The story of a Facebook security engineer fired for allegedly stalking women online and potentially exploiting his privileged access to…

As AI becomes the go-to tool of the online world, companies are reporting only their successes, while the public and…

Facebook quietly announced this week that its secret news outlet ranking is now live and being actively used to “boost”…

Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics piece explores the Washington Post's take on fact checking claims and ratings. Read The Full Article.

Axios charts how television news coverage of the health care debate faded over 2017 and early 2018. Read The Full…