Mohammed bin Salman

Mohammed bin Salman appears in roughly 3 monitored articles per day as of October 4, 2026. Mentions are steady week-over-week (+1.9%). The tone of that coverage averages -0.49 — mildly negative.

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, also known as MbS, is the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, formally serving as Crown Prince and Prime Minister. He is the heir apparent to the Saudi throne, the son of King Salman, and the grandson of the nation's founder, Ibn Saud.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Also covered as: MBS · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
3
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+1.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-0.49
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Mohammed bin Salman mentions per day: 91 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-10-040.00250500Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Mohammed bin Salman coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -0.49 on 2026-10-04+100-10Jul 6Jul 22Aug 7Aug 23Sep 8Sep 24Oct 4

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Mohammed bin Salman: 89 days, latest 5184.00 on 2026-10-020.001000020000Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 2

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).