Mohammed bin Salman

Mohammed bin Salman appears in roughly 1 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 71.9% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.03 — 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 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
1
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-71.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.03
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Mohammed bin Salman mentions per day: 91 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Mohammed bin Salman coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.03 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Mohammed bin Salman: 89 days, latest 3468.00 on 2026-08-180.001000020000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

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”).