{"data":[{"slug":"global-2026-08-26","scope":"global","date":"2026-08-26","headline":"Global Risk Briefing, August 26, 2026: coverage of Elections Watch is surging","bodyMd":"Geotone's daily reading of the world's news coverage for August 26, 2026, computed from GDELT signals across 42 tracked topics and 197 countries.\n\n## Surging coverage\n\n\n- Coverage of [Elections Watch](https://geotone.news/topics/elections) is running 14.0 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.149% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Peacekeeping](https://geotone.news/topics/peacekeeping) is running 3.6 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.016% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Haiti Crisis](https://geotone.news/topics/haiti-crisis) is running 2.6 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.019% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Refugees & Displacement](https://geotone.news/topics/refugees) is running 2.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.019% of all monitored articles.\n\n- Coverage of [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war) is running 2.2 standard deviations above its trailing average, at 0.464% of all monitored articles.\n\n## Notable movers\n\n\n- Coverage of [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions) rose 1595.1% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Haiti Crisis](https://geotone.news/topics/haiti-crisis) rose 1170.5% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Maritime Piracy](https://geotone.news/topics/piracy) rose 606.5% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [DR Congo Conflict](https://geotone.news/topics/drc-conflict) rose 387.2% week-over-week.\n\n- Coverage of [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war) rose 300.5% week-over-week.\n\n## Most covered today\n\n\n- [Trade War & Tariffs](https://geotone.news/topics/trade-war): 0.464% of global coverage.\n\n- [Iran War & Succession](https://geotone.news/topics/iran-war-succession): 0.187% of global coverage.\n\n- [Elections Watch](https://geotone.news/topics/elections): 0.149% of global coverage.\n\n- [Sanctions](https://geotone.news/topics/sanctions): 0.106% of global coverage.\n\n- [Israel–Gaza](https://geotone.news/topics/israel-gaza): 0.034% of global coverage.\n\n## Where the press reads darkest\n\n\n- [Sierra Leone](https://geotone.news/countries/sl): average tone -8.35.\n\n- [Haiti](https://geotone.news/countries/ht): average tone -4.86.\n\n- [Comoros](https://geotone.news/countries/km): average tone -4.84.\n\n- [Lesotho](https://geotone.news/countries/ls): average tone -4.75.\n\n- [Togo](https://geotone.news/countries/tg): average tone -4.25.\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":"2026-08-26T06:00:24.016Z"}],"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":"2026-10-04T10:20:58.672Z"}}