Dashboard
Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT
- Trump planning meeting with Kim Jong Un; scales back cooperation with South Korea (129 outlets · 12 countries)
- Congo's Ebola Outbreak Reaches 5,000 Cases As It Outpaces Response Efforts At Unprecedented Speed – The Yeshiva World (41 outlets · 2 countries)
- Disney sues FCC over broadcast license challenge, claims retaliation (44 outlets · 2 countries)
Surge board
Largest z-scores — coverage furthest above its own trailing average
- Refugees & Displacementz 22.4
- Peacekeepingz 6.8
- Elections Watchz 2.1
- Korean Peninsulaz 0.9
- DR Congo Conflictz 0.7
- South China Seaz 0.7
Top movers
Biggest week-over-week coverage shifts
- Refugees & Displacement▲ +274.1%
- Trade War & Tariffs▲ +263.4%
- South China Sea▲ +216.7%
- Syria Transition▼ -81.0%
- Maritime Piracy▼ -78.3%
- Red Sea Shipping▼ -76.4%
Most covered
Largest share of global coverage today
- Iran War & Succession0.16%
- Trade War & Tariffs0.12%
- Refugees & Displacement0.1%
- Israel–Gaza0.05%
- Coups & Power Grabs0.04%
- Sanctions0.04%
Darkest tone
Countries drawing the most negative coverage right now
- Afghanistan-5.92
- Democratic Republic of the Congo-4.91
- Qatar-4.15
- South Sudan-4.10
- Somalia-4.09
- Ukraine-4.07
Anxiety index
Topics whose coverage carries the most anxiety words (LIWC density per 1,000 words)
- Terrorism14.56
- Haiti Crisis12.12
- Syria Transition10.95
- Critical Minerals8.93
- Iran War & Succession8.41
- Ukraine War8.3
Reader interest divergence
Wikipedia reading on these topics is growing faster than press coverage — demand outrunning supply
- Sanctionsreaders +5% · press -75%
- Korean Peninsulareaders +49% · press -30%
- Energy Securityreaders +54% · press -21%
- Taiwan Straitreaders +5% · press -51%
- Semiconductor Geopoliticsreaders +11% · press -43%
- Haiti Crisisreaders +2% · press -45%
What Geotone measures
Live geopolitical risk signals, measured from the world's news: Geotone tracks the volume, tone, and geography of coverage across 65+ languages — turning millions of articles into quantitative signals on 42 conflicts, flashpoints, and risk themes and 197 countries, plus the ranked live wire above. No paywall, no spin: numbers, sources, and a free public API.
Coverage volume
The share of all articles GDELT monitors that match a topic or are about a country — an attention meter for the world's press.
Tone
Average sentiment of matching coverage, roughly -10 to +10. Falling tone often precedes escalating events.
Surges
A topic surges when today's volume runs ≥ 2 standard deviations above its own trailing month — a statistical tripwire for breaking developments.
Read the full methodology — every number on this site is reproducible.