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Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a future in which Facebook knows us better than we know ourselves and can “identify problems…

As we argue about what exactly “fake news” is and how to fight it, we find that the phrase was…

How our obsession with “fake news websites” masks the reality that most false and misleading information comes in the form…

While Twitter’s new tools for combatting abusive speech are a decade-late effort to return to civil discourse, one particular instance…

If just 50 people can vote to effectively blacklist an entire news outlet from Wikipedia without any data-driven analysis, what…

How Alphabet’s Jigsaw is working to save free speech in an era where DDOS attacks are increasingly being used to…

What the latest iteration of the iconic Tallinn Manual on the laws of cyberwar teaches us about a future in…

Facebook recently argued the technology doesn’t exist to scan its billions of posts for hate speech, but digital fingerprints and…

Could deep learning and chatbots be used to eliminate hate speech and violent threats online by not only naming-and-shaming accounts…

How statistical fallacies, predatory publishers and the lack of statistical and information literacy are all feeding the fake news machine….

Using the new Television Explorer, this article explores the polarization of today's media through the lens of agenda setting and…

As the “rogue” movement continues to spread and accounts begin to fight with each other and conduct anonymous fundraising, will…

Lost in all the furor over the White House proposal to screen cell phones and social media at the border…

The latest update to the Television Explorer debuted this morning, which added several new features: Hourly Timeline. Now when selecting…

As trusted authoritative scientific sources give way to anonymous “rogue” social media accounts, will we have to rethink how we…

As part of our transition of all of GDELT's current and forthcoming full text search features over to an ElasticSearch…

The intense popularity of these new “rogue” Twitter accounts presents unique challenges for the future of how government communicates with…

We're excited to announce that as of this afternoon, GDELT Founder Kalev Leetaru has written 153 articles for Forbes over…

Silicon Valley has commoditized the petabyte, yet why is the broader data science community still stuck in the gigabyte era?…

When it comes to exploring patterns in GDELT’s immense data archives stretching back two centuries, nothing on this earth can…

Could social media platforms require users to prove they read an article before they could share it and would this…

Archives of the web like the Internet Archive offer us an incredible glimpse into the digitization of human society, so…

As the physical world becomes ever-more-enmeshed in the virtual one, securing the physical world requires much greater attention to the…

Without greater incentives to fight online abuse, it is unlikely that we will see much in the way of a…