Topic tone rankings

Maritime Piracy currently has the most negative coverage tone (-8.14) among measurable topics. War coverage is structurally negative, so within-topic trends matter more than absolute levels — but cross-topic gaps this large are still informative.

Data updated: October 4, 2026 · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

By average coverage tone (most negative first)

#	Name	Tone
1	Maritime Piracy	-8.14	0% of coverage
2	Sahel Insurgency	-7.98	0% of coverage
3	Ethiopia Conflict	-7.72	0.007% of coverage
4	Sudan Civil War	-7.07	0.002% of coverage
5	Cyberattacks	-6.87	0.007% of coverage
6	Migration & Borders	-5.76	0.002% of coverage
7	Yemen Conflict	-5.60	0.064% of coverage
8	Myanmar Civil War	-5.57	0.006% of coverage
9	Terrorism	-5.43	0.085% of coverage
10	Taiwan Strait	-5.20	0.004% of coverage
11	Israel–Gaza	-4.84	0.043% of coverage
12	Israel–Iran Confrontation	-4.57	0.001% of coverage
13	DR Congo Conflict	-4.38	0.001% of coverage
14	Critical Minerals	-3.85	0.021% of coverage
15	Arms Deals	-3.76	0.001% of coverage
16	Ukraine War	-3.73	0.085% of coverage
17	Food Security	-3.22	0.008% of coverage
18	NATO	-3.14	0.081% of coverage
19	Sanctions	-3.13	0.028% of coverage
20	Korean Peninsula	-2.83	0.067% of coverage

GDELT document tone averaged across each topic's matching coverage, latest complete reading.

Recomputed every three hours. Methodology: how every number is computed. License: CC BY 4.0 — cite "Geotone / GDELT" with a link to this page.