The GDELT Project

We are happy to announce that earlier this afternoon we completed the final stages of the migration of the Full…

USAID put together this video showcasing how GDELT is being used to catalog global wildlife crime.

First announced in May 2015, our GeoJSON API has become an immensely popular way of visualizing and interacting with the…

Kalev appeared on the Wharton Business Radio Highlights program this evening to talk about his thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Manifesto….

Four recent explorations showcase how GDELT, the largest open dataset ever created capturing the life of the world's media ecosystem, can be…

What 121 million news articles and three quarters of a billion hyperlinks tell us about how the world’s news media…

What deep learning algorithms can tell us about the visual narratives of the world’s news imagery, from depictions of violence…

Many web archiving initiatives are still using crawlers built for the web of a quarter century ago and advances in…

With the public debut of its new deep learning-powered toxic speech filter, Alphabet Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas) offers the perfect…

This new map repeats last year's map of global happiness using BigQuery and Carto to map global happiness in 2016…

How the power of the cloud makes it possible to sentiment mine, machine translate, geocode and map a quarter billion…

Last March we released a map showcasing the deep learning-powered "visual geocoder" capability of Google's Cloud Vision API applied to…

Traditionally we’ve focused on mapping the geography of text, but through deep learning we now have algorithms that can visually…

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…