Are Web Archives Failing The Modern Web: Video, Social Media, Dynamic Pages and The Mobile Web
Many web archiving initiatives are still using crawlers built for the web of a quarter century ago and advances in…
Fighting Words Not Ideas: Google's New AI-Powered Toxic Speech Filter Is The Right Approach
With the public debut of its new deep learning-powered toxic speech filter, Alphabet Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas) offers the perfect…
Map: Global Happiness In 2016
This new map repeats last year's map of global happiness using BigQuery and Carto to map global happiness in 2016…
Mapping Global Happiness In 2016 Through A Quarter Billion News Articles
How the power of the cloud makes it possible to sentiment mine, machine translate, geocode and map a quarter billion…
Map: Using Google's Deep Learning AI To Geolocate Global News Imagery
Last March we released a map showcasing the deep learning-powered "visual geocoder" capability of Google's Cloud Vision API applied to…
Visual Geocoding A Quarter Billion Global News Photographs Using Google's Deep Learning API
Traditionally we’ve focused on mapping the geography of text, but through deep learning we now have algorithms that can visually…
Zuckerberg's Letter And Will Facebook Make Minority Report's 'Precrime' A Reality?
Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a future in which Facebook knows us better than we know ourselves and can “identify problems…
Did Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Coin The Phrase 'Fake News'?
As we argue about what exactly “fake news” is and how to fight it, we find that the phrase was…
Fighting 'Fake News' Requires Fighting False Claims Not Banning News Outlets
How our obsession with “fake news websites” masks the reality that most false and misleading information comes in the form…
How Twitter's New Censorship Tools Are The Pandora's Box Moving Us Towards The End Of Free Speech
While Twitter’s new tools for combatting abusive speech are a decade-late effort to return to civil discourse, one particular instance…
What Wikipedia's Daily Mail 'Ban' Tells Us About The Future Of Online Censorship
If just 50 people can vote to effectively blacklist an entire news outlet from Wikipedia without any data-driven analysis, what…
Alphabet's Project Shield And Eliminating DDOS Attacks On Free Speech
How Alphabet’s Jigsaw is working to save free speech in an era where DDOS attacks are increasingly being used to…
What Tallinn Manual 2.0 Teaches Us About The New Cyber Order
What the latest iteration of the iconic Tallinn Manual on the laws of cyberwar teaches us about a future in…
Using Digital Fingerprints And Deep Learning To Fight Online Harassment
Facebook recently argued the technology doesn’t exist to scan its billions of posts for hate speech, but digital fingerprints and…
Fighting Social Media Hate Speech With AI-Powered Bots
Could deep learning and chatbots be used to eliminate hate speech and violent threats online by not only naming-and-shaming accounts…
Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics: How Bad Statistics Are Feeding Fake News
How statistical fallacies, predatory publishers and the lack of statistical and information literacy are all feeding the fake news machine….
How much coverage did CNN actually devote to Clinton’s emails? Here’s the data.
Using the new Television Explorer, this article explores the polarization of today's media through the lens of agenda setting and…
The Rogue Wars: When The "Rogue" Twitter Accounts Start Fighting And Fundraising
As the “rogue” movement continues to spread and accounts begin to fight with each other and conduct anonymous fundraising, will…
We Already Screen Cell Phones At The Border, Will Social Media Be Any Different?
Lost in all the furor over the White House proposal to screen cell phones and social media at the border…
Television Explorer Hourly Timeline, Boolean OR and Increased JSON Cap
The latest update to the Television Explorer debuted this morning, which added several new features: Hourly Timeline. Now when selecting…
How The 'Rogue' Twitter Accounts Rewrote How We Communicate Science In The Social Era
As trusted authoritative scientific sources give way to anonymous “rogue” social media accounts, will we have to rethink how we…
Changes To How GDELT Handles Full Text Search
As part of our transition of all of GDELT's current and forthcoming full text search features over to an ElasticSearch…
What The 'Rogue' EPA, NPS and NASA Twitter Accounts Teach Us About The Future Of Social
The intense popularity of these new “rogue” Twitter accounts presents unique challenges for the future of how government communicates with…
153 Forbes Articles And Counting
We're excited to announce that as of this afternoon, GDELT Founder Kalev Leetaru has written 153 articles for Forbes over…