Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (MTG) disapproval of military support to Ukraine remains popular on Russian state television, such as this excerpt of her CPAC speech and one of her Tucker Carlson appearances. blog.gdeltproject.org/marjorie-taylo…

In collaboration with the Internet Archive, more than a billion words of Belarusian, Iranian, Russian And Ukrainian television news now accessible for narrative analysis: blog.gdeltproject.org/visual-explore…

Yesterday, in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we announced the availability of more than 1 billion words of transcribed and translated Belarusian, Iranian, Russian and Ukrainian television news broadcasts. How might we examine blog.gdeltproject.org/visual-explore…

Visualizing Who Appears Alongside Whom On An Episode Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes Who appears alongside whom on television news represents a key editorial decision of what voices to pair. From split-screen displays to the back-and-forth of presenters blog.gdeltproject.org/visual-explore…

In collaboration with the Internet Archive , the Visual Explorer extracts one frame every 4 seconds from each broadcast to create a "visual ngram" that non-consumptively captures the core visual narratives of the broadcast. What if we took all of those blog.gdeltproject.org/visual-explore…

Sampling Russian television news broadcasts every 4 seconds and pairwise comparing those "visual ngrams" over an entire broadcast yields a powerful tool for cataloging advertising, identifying key advertising trends across the Russian television news blog.gdeltproject.org/visual-explore…

Adding Confidence Scores To Tracking A Year Of Tucker Carlson On Russia 1's "60 Minutes" Last month, in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we demonstrated scanning a year of Russia1's "60 Minutes" for all appearances of Tucker blog.gdeltproject.org/adding-confide…

Visual Explorer: Creating Visual Networks Of Facial Co-Occurrences On An Episode Of Russian TV News' 60 Minutes – Revisited Last week we demonstrated using a simplistic facial extraction and visual clustering pipeline to extract the faces from a single blog.gdeltproject.org/visual-explore…

The timeline below compares the percentage of airtime across business television news channels since the start of last year that mentioned President Biden versus Elon Musk, showing that twice last year coverage of Musk nearly equaled that of Biden in a blog.gdeltproject.org/biden-versus-m…

WashPost: The TikTok fight Is A Generational Fight The Post's Philip Bump includes a graph of mentions across television news using the TV Explorer: washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

WashPost: Ray Epps Seeks The Seemingly Impossible: An Apology From Tucker Carlson References television news coverage of Ray Epps via the TV Explorer: washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

Spinmeisters Of Russia: The Bucha Massacre Likened To WWII Nazis blog.gdeltproject.org/spinmeisters-o…

Fox News Dominates Mentions Of "Radical" Over The Past Decade As the timeline and graph below show, Fox News has dominated mentions of the word "radical" over the past decade. blog.gdeltproject.org/fox-news-domin…

Being "Canceled" Took Off In 2020 On Television News But Has Been Fading Since 2021 The timeline below tracks total mentions of "canceled" on television news, showing nearly equal mentions through mid-2020, when the term took off on Fox News, but has been blog.gdeltproject.org/being-canceled…

Pandemic Coverage Continues To Fade Across Both Online And Television News blog.gdeltproject.org/pandemic-cover…

Mentions of "woke" and "wokeness" surged on Fox News from January 2021, but over the last three months have surged on CNN and MSNBC as well. blog.gdeltproject.org/mentions-of-wo…

"Maga" Mentions Fade On CNN & Fox News But Continue On MSNBC blog.gdeltproject.org/maga-mentions-…

Mentions of an impending recession continue to fade away on television news channels. blog.gdeltproject.org/recession-ment…

Fully Autonomous Diplomacy + Counter-Messaging Experiments With ChatGPT + GDELT Given the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to craft human-like prose, how easily could they be used to fully autonomously watch television news, identify blog.gdeltproject.org/fully-autonomo…

Visual Explorer: OCR'ing A Year And A Half Of CSPAN Through Tesseract To seed further research into the potential new kinds of insights that could be derived by searching and analyzing the onscreen text of our nation's governance using open OCR tools, today  in collaboration