{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-08-21","scope":"global","date":"2026-08-21","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, August 21, 2026: coverage of Maritime Piracy is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for August 21, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Maritime Piracy](https://geotone.news/topics/piracy) is running 13.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.003% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Korean Peninsula](https://geotone.news/topics/korean-peninsula) is running 6.5 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.067% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Refugees & Displacement](https://geotone.news/topics/refugees) is running 5.0 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.03% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Disinformation](https://geotone.news/topics/disinformation) is running 2.6 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.033% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) is running 2.1 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.091% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [South China Sea](https://geotone.news/topics/south-china-sea) rose 530.4% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Maritime Piracy](https://geotone.news/topics/piracy) rose 122.3% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war) rose 121.9% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Refugees & Displacement](https://geotone.news/topics/refugees) rose 121.4% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Red Sea Shipping](https://geotone.news/topics/red-sea-shipping) fell 77.4% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions): 0.091% of global coverage.\n\n- [Korean Peninsula](https://geotone.news/topics/korean-peninsula): 0.067% of global coverage.\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.064% of global coverage.\n\n- [NATO](https://geotone.news/topics/nato): 0.049% of global coverage.\n\n- [Terrorism](https://geotone.news/topics/terrorism): 0.043% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Guinea-Bissau](https://geotone.news/countries/gw): average tone -5.10.\n\n- [Moldova](https://geotone.news/countries/md): average tone -4.23.\n\n- [South Sudan](https://geotone.news/countries/ss): average tone -4.03.\n\n- [Maldives](https://geotone.news/countries/mv): average tone -4.03.\n\n- [Central African Republic](https://geotone.news/countries/cf): average tone -3.60.\n\n\n*Every figure above is computed from GDELT coverage data as described in the [methodology](https://geotone.news/methodology). Derived data is CC BY 4.0 — cite \"Geotone / GDELT\".*","generator":"template","publishedAt":"2026-08-21T06:00:35.318Z"}],"meta":{"license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Geotone / GDELT","source":"https://geotone.news","docs":"https://geotone.news/api-docs","generated":"2026-10-04T10:21:07.578Z"}}