WashPost: American's Think Trump Doesn't Work As Hard As Most Presidents
The Washington Post's Philip Bump used the Television Explorer to report how often President Trump was mentioned in the context…
Facebook's News Feed Changes: Audience Access Fee And Escapism?
Facebook is finally starting to charge brands an access fee for the right to step foot in its walled garden…
Silicon Valley Business Journal: Weekend Reading List
Silicon Valley Business Journal's Editor-in-Chief J. Jennings Moss included Kalev's Forbes column on its failed fake news initiative in his…
Is Twitter Really Censoring Free Speech?
The new year has given rise once again to claims that social media sites censor certain views. The truth is…
The Remarkable Reversal: How Companies Now Censor Governments
The digital revolution has both upended the traditional balance of power, granting private companies the power to censor governments, and…
Towns Fight Back Against Navigation Apps: Are Machines Making Us Too Efficient?
Whether by air or by land, the data-driven navigational revolution made possible by GPS is confronting a public increasingly adverse…
Will Virtual AI Assistants Create Real Relationship Troubles?
A colleague’s offhanded remark about spousal jealously over an AI home assistant raises fascinating questions about how these new devices…
In A Meltdown And Spectre World Is Digital Privacy Truly Dead?
Hardware vulnerabilities lurking in plain sight for 20 years, military chip compromises, software backdoors, misconfigured cloud storage, breaches galore and…
CJR: We Can Probably Measure Media Bias. But Do We Want To?
An article in Columbia Journalism Review mentions how the Television Explorer is being used to understand media bias. Read The…
Facebook's 'Fake News' Backfire: Why Silicon Valley Must Grow Up From Neverland
Last month Facebook quietly pivoted its “fake news” initiative, acknowledging the “backfire effect” the academic community had warned it about….
Tracking Bitcoin/Cryptocurrencies And Blockchain Using GDELT Summary
Given the explosion of interest over the past year in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as well as the broader applications…
DOC & GEO 2.0 API Updates: Full Year Searching And More!
We're excited to announce today a massive upgrade to our DOC and GEO 2.0 API platforms! The DOC 2.0 API…
GDELT Summary Interface Updates
One of the goals of the new GDELT Summary platform is to better understand how to translate GDELT's immense power…
RealClearPolitics: Is Facebook Driving Our Country Apart?
A look at how Facebook is and isn't reshaping our national dialog. Read The Full Article.
The Smart Home Battle Front And Can Our ISP Interfere With Our Heat?
An ISP warns its customers they could lose remote control of thermostats and security cameras. As our homes become extensions…
Facebook's Deletion of Ramzan Kadyrov And Who Controls The Web?
Facebook’s removal of Ramzan Kadyrov’s accounts remind us that was once a global cooperative of interconnected computers spread across the…
What Apple's Secret iPhone Slowdown Teaches Us About Our Digital Rights
Apple’s quiet throttling of its iPhones stands as a reminder that the devices we purchase today are never truly ours…
The Library Of Congress In the Digital Age: From Archiving Twitter To Innovation Lab
From its announcement this week that it will cease archiving the Twitter firehose to its creation of a new innovation…
Updates To The DOC 2.0 API
As we work to extend the searchable date range of the DOC 2.0 API beyond a rolling window of 3 months…
Using GDELT Summary To Track The Jerusalem Response
Two weeks ago when US President Trump declared that the US would officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,…
Why 2017 Was The Year Of The Filter Bubble?
We’ve been talking about filter bubbles for years, so why all of a sudden have they leapt to the forefront…
WashPost: What National News Networks Were Talking About During 2017
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks back at the year in review to explore what the national television networks were…
Can AI Assistants Help Curb Harassment?
As AI-powered “smart” assistants evolve from simple voice controlled dumb terminals towards virtual personalities that interact with users, can they…
Eesti Ekspress: The Estonian Man Who Created A "Machine" For Predicting The Future
Eesti Ekspress interviewed Kalev about his work exploring how we can forecast the future. Read The Full Article.