Live geopolitical risk signals, measured from the world's news
Geotone tracks the volume, tone, and geography of news coverage across 65+ languages — turning millions of articles into quantitative signals on 40 conflicts, flashpoints, and risk themes and 196 countries. No paywall, no spin: numbers, sources, and a public API.
Data updated: · refreshed hourly from GDELT
Surge board
Largest z-scores — coverage furthest above its own trailing average
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Top movers
Biggest week-over-week coverage shifts
- A fortnight of data is needed for week-over-week shifts — collecting now.
Most covered
Largest share of global coverage today
- NATO1.05%
- Taiwan Strait0.95%
- Sanctions0.69%
- Israel–Gaza0.4%
- Nuclear Proliferation0.11%
- Arctic Security0.08%
Darkest tone
Countries whose press reads most negative right now
- Palestine-2.66
- Bulgaria-1.40
- Australia-1.19
- Belgium-1.14
- Azerbaijan-1.03
- South Korea-0.80
What Geotone measures
Coverage volume
The share of all articles GDELT monitors that match a topic or originate from a country — an attention meter for the world's press.
Tone
Average sentiment of matching coverage, roughly -10 to +10. Falling tone often precedes escalating events.
Surges
A topic surges when today's volume runs ≥ 2 standard deviations above its own trailing month — a statistical tripwire for breaking developments.
Read the full methodology — every number on this site is reproducible.