How much news coverage is Sanctions receiving right now?

As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.099% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 35 articles per day.

Is media coverage of Sanctions increasing or decreasing?

Coverage is down 58.2% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before). The topic is currently surging by Geotone's z-score measure.

What is the tone of news coverage about Sanctions?

The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -6.26, which reads as strongly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).

How are these numbers measured?

Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Sanctions

Sanctions accounts for 0.099% of all global news coverage monitored by GDELT as of August 20, 2026 (35 matched articles/day). Coverage is down 58.2% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -6.26 — strongly negative. Attention is surging: current volume is 2.4 standard deviations above its trailing average.

Coverage of economic sanctions: new designations, enforcement, evasion, and sanctions diplomacy.

Data updated: August 20, 2026 · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share

0.099%

of monitored articles

Articles / day

matched by GDELT

Week over week

-58.2%

7-day mean vs prior

Average tone

-6.26

strongly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Emotional signature

Anxiety-related words per 1,000 words of matching English-language coverage (LIWC dictionaries via GDELT's GCAM). Latest day: 3.3 anxiety · 3.4 anger · 25.9 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.

Where this coverage comes from

By language

English91.4%
French2.9%
Hindi2.9%
Malayalam2.9%

Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-08-20). Tone split: 80% of articles read distinctly negative, 0% distinctly positive.

In focus by country

Countries where Sanctions coverage concentrates — each links to the stories and headlines for that intersection.

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily human pageviews of the topic's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage measures what the press supplies; this measures what readers seek out. Week-over-week: coverage -58.2%, reader interest +4.8% — supply and demand are diverging.

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Via the Google Fact Check Tools API; ratings are the fact-checkers' own.

Frequently asked questions

How much news coverage is Sanctions receiving right now?: As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.099% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 35 articles per day.
Is media coverage of Sanctions increasing or decreasing?: Coverage is down 58.2% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before). The topic is currently surging by Geotone's z-score measure.
What is the tone of news coverage about Sanctions?: The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -6.26, which reads as strongly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).
How are these numbers measured?: Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Methodology: coverage share and tone are computed from GDELT's 15-minute data files and aggregated to UTC days — see how every number is computed. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).