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BBC & CNN Lead The Way In Television News Coverage Of Covid-19 Variants While Fox Gives Them Much Less Airtime

New mutant Covid-19 strains have garnered increasing attention from public health officials over concerns they may be more infectious and…

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WashPost: The Former President (Yes, That One) Still Gobbles Up A Lot Of Attention

The Washington Post's Philip Bump chronicles how much media attention Trump still commands out of office. Read The Full Article.

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Video: Online News Coverage Of "Herd Immunity" Continues At December Rate

Mentions of "herd immunity" in online news coverage first appeared in significant numbers starting March 13, 2020, ramped down over May 2020…

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Macroeconomic Forecasting Through News, Emotions And Narrative

This fascinating paper by Sonja Tilly, Markus Ebner and Giacomo Livan leverages sentiment analysis of GDELT for forecasting: This study…

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Video: "Immunity Passports" Fade From The News

So-called "immunity passports" were once touted as the way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, in which once someone had been…

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Video: Texas Freeze Gets Fraction Of Hurricane Harvey Coverage And Fox Mentions Less Than CNN Or MSNBC

The timeline below shows the total monthly mentions of Texas across television news over the past decade, showing that the massive storm…

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Finding Good News In The Midst Of The Pandemic Using Tone Filtering

In the midst of a global pandemic it can seem that every other news headline is about something negative. How…

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Video: Indian Glacier Flood Receives Little Airtime On American Television News

The graph below shows the percentage of airtime across a set of US and international television news stations that mentioned the Indian glacier…

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Covid-19 Aerosolization Receives Little Television News Coverage

The chart below shows the total number of mentions of aerosolization across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since the start of last…

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Video: Cruz Cancun Trip Gets Far Less Coverage On Fox News Than CNN Or MSNBC

The timeline below shows the total mentions of Ted Cruz across television news surrounding his trip to Cancun. MSNBC mentioned him the…

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Television News Is Talking About The Minimum Wage Again For The First Time Since 2014

The timeline below shows the total number of daily mentions of the minimum wage across television news over the past decade, showing…

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Video: Fox News Mentions Jen Psaki More Than CNN And MSNBC Combined

The graph below shows how many times White House press secretary Jen Psaki has been mentioned across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…

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Fox News Leads TJ Ducklo Coverage While MSNBC Doesn't Mention It At All

The timeline below shows the total daily mentions of former White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo on television news, showing that Fox News…

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Cruz Cancun Trip Gets Far Less Coverage On Fox News Than CNN Or MSNBC

The timeline below shows the total mentions of Ted Cruz across television news surrounding his trip to Cancun. MSNBC mentioned him the…

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Texas Freeze Receives Little National TV News Attention And Fox Mentions Far Less Than CNN Or MSNBC

The timeline below shows the total monthly mentions of Texas across television news over the past decade, showing that the massive storm…

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"Defund The Police" All But Disappears From Television News

The timeline below shows mentions of the phrase "defund the police" across television news since its emergence at the end of May…

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Video: American Television News Devotes Little Attention To Myanmar Coup

In the two weeks since Burma's February 1, 2021 military coup, how much attention has the coup received across television…

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Bell Curves At Scale: URL Frontier Caches

Operating internet-scale globally distributed crawler fleets offers fascinating insights into how massive complex software can operate almost like a living…

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Global Relationship Graph Reaches 1 Billion Relationships

We're excited to announce that the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot, which debuted three months ago, has reached…

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Video: Marjorie Taylor Greene Versus AOC On Television News

How has television news covered Marjorie Taylor Greene versus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) since the start of this year? The graph below shows the…

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Tracking The Similarity Of Television News Word Use Over The Past Decade

How similar are the words spoken across television news each day and has that similarity changed much over the past…

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When Did Television News First Start Talking About "Disinformation"?

When did the term "disinformation" first enter the media lexicon? The timeline below shows the total number of mentions of it across…

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Identifying Competing Narrative Framings Around Vaccine Efficacy Against Covid-19 Variants

One of the great challenges in autonomously identifying competing narratives in the news lies in the complexity of understanding that…

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Video: Fox News Covers Psaki's "Personal Capacity" Walensky Comment Twice As Much As CNN And MSNBC Combined

On February 3, 2021, CDC Director Dr. Walensky stated at a press conference that schools could be safely reopened without…