Topic tone rankings
Israel–Gaza currently has the most negative coverage tone (-3.58) 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: · refreshed hourly from GDELT
By average coverage tone (most negative first)
| # | Name | Tone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Israel–Gaza | -3.58 |
| 2 | Sanctions | -3.33 |
| 3 | Sudan Civil War | -2.01 |
| 4 | Korean Peninsula | -1.99 |
| 5 | Yemen Conflict | -1.75 |
| 6 | Nuclear Proliferation | -1.47 |
| 7 | Myanmar Civil War | -1.30 |
| 8 | Sahel Insurgency | -1.30 |
| 9 | NATO | -1.19 |
| 10 | Arctic Security | +0.36 |
| 11 | Taiwan Strait | +0.63 |
GDELT document tone averaged across each topic's matching coverage, latest complete reading.
Recomputed hourly. Methodology: how every number is computed. License: CC BY 4.0 — cite "Geotone / GDELT" with a link to this page.