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WashPost: Trump's 'Big Lie' Fueled A New Generation Of Social Media Influencers

The Washington Post's Elizabeth Dwoskin and Jeremy B. Merrill published today this impressive and detailed in-depth look at the MSM-social…

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Mentions Of Sexual Assault And Harassment On Television News Have Returned To Their Pre-MeToo Levels

The #MeToo movement brought with it significant media coverage of sexual assault and harassment on television news, but while mentions…

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Coverage Of #MeToo Has Faded On Television News

The #MeToo movement burst into television news in October-November 2017, but largely faded within a year on CNN and MSNBC,…

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The Internet Archive's TV News Archive Turns 10: A Look Back At A Decade Of Pioneering Collaboration Reimagining Media Research

The Internet Archive's Television News Archive was launched to the public ten years ago today and GDELT and its founder…

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The Benefit Of Narratives For Prediction Of The S&P 500 Index

This paper uses GDELT for financial forecasting: In this article, the authors show that variables from the Global Database of…

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How American Media Is Repurposed By Adversaries Abroad: From Russian Coverage Of Its Ukraine Invasion To Iranian Sanctions

One of the many fascinating elements of Russian domestic television coverage of its invasion of Ukraine is the way to…

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Video: Between The Brackets: Fairness & Ethics In AI: From Journalism, Medicine And Translation

Kalev spoke today alongside Mallika Iyer, Head of Product Manager of Translation AI at Google and Samuel Marks, Research Fellow…

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As Censorship And Secrecy Rise, So Do Conspiracy Theories

This medium post by Kent Kroeger includes a graph of media discussion of censorship. Read The Full Article.

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WashPost: Drug Dealers Are Theoretically Targeting Your Babies Again, America

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of fentanyl. Read The Full Article.

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Tomorrow: Between The Brackets: Fairness & Ethics In AI: From Journalism, Medicine And Translation

Kalev will be speaking tomorrow alongside Mallika Iyer, Head of Product Manager of Translation AI at Google and Samuel Marks,…

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Big Data-Based Analysis And Prediction Of International Events

This paper explores international event forecasting using GDELT: International event data can be seen as sensors that explain the interaction…

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Diffusion Of Protests In The Arab Spring

This fascinating paper explores protest diffusion in the 2011 Arab Spring: This paper examines how protests spread across countries in…

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Commodities & Financial Early Warning Using Web NGrams + GCP Timeseries Insights API + Translate + BigQuery

On Friday, we combined GDELT's Web NGrams 3.0 dataset with GCP's Timeseries Insights API, Translate API and BigQuery to create…

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WashPost: What If Tucker Carlson's Wrong About More Than Just Russia?

The Washington Post's Philip Bump offers some insights from Russian television news via the TV Visual Explorer. Read The Full…

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Measuring Global Anxiety In The Pandemic Era: Planetary-Scale Sentiment Mining

GDELT's unique global reach across more than 150 languages spanning nearly every corner of the globe makes it possible to…

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AI Bias & Why It Is So Important To Understand The Intrinsic Biases Of Real World Data

Powering the exponential rise of AI over the past decade has been the digital revolution that has made unimaginably large…

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TV News' Massive Gender Bias: A Decade Of "He" Over "She" Pronouns

As societies around the world increasingly confront gender bias, how does television news reinforce such bias? One measure is how…

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"Us" Versus "Them" On TV News: How Mueller Forever Fractured The News And COVID-19 Only Briefly Brought Us Back Together

One of the ways social scientists examine group dynamics in the media is to examine latent framing in the form…

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Television News Pronouns: How The Pandemic Changed "I/Me" Versus "Us/We"

How often does television news refer to "i" and "me" (the anchor, interviewee or guest referring to themselves) versus "us"…

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Monkeypox & Disease Early Warning: Planetary-Scale Anomaly Detection With Web NGrams + GCP Timeseries Insights API + Translate + BigQuery

From capturing the first flickers of 2014's Ebola outbreak to powering one of the earliest alerts of the Covid-19 pandemic,…

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Between The Brackets: Fairness & Ethics In AI: From Journalism, Medicine And Translation

Kalev will be speaking alongside Mallika Iyer, Head of Product Manager of Translation AI at Google and Samuel Marks, Research…

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Coming Soon: The GDELT Video Series

In the coming weeks we'll be unveiling a tremendously exciting new content series of short and long form videos exploring…

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Tracking socio-economic activities in European countries with unconventional data

This paper by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) explores GDELT as an unconventional dataset for societal…

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TV Visual Explorer: Republic of Congo's Télé Congo

The Republic of Congo's Télé Congo is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe,…