This is a demo. It is experimental: everything on it is produced automatically, has not been checked by a person, and may be wrong or incomplete.
The map shows protests and armed conflict reported by news outlets. Each day, around 380 news feeds from many countries are read; an AI model picks out the articles that describe a protest or a conflict event, and rates each event on a five-level scale (for protests: 1 peaceful demonstration, 2 some clashes, 3 mass riots and violence, 4 massive political clashes, 5 revolution or civil war).
Events of the same kind in the same area are grouped into one situation, drawn as one dot: its colour is the level, its size the number of independent outlets reporting it, and a dashed ring marks a nationwide event or an approximate position. A serious level needs more than one outlet to confirm it. Click a dot to read a short summary and open the articles it rests on.
Country colours. The disturbance score of a country is the sum of the weights of its distinct protest incidents (one per place; level 1 counts 1, level 2 counts 5, level 3 counts 10, level 4 counts 20, level 5 counts 50) divided by the square root of its population in millions, times 1000. It is shown as an average over the last week, month or year, and the trend compares that average with the period before. Only countries over a million people with at least one incident of level 2 or more are scored. The Reviews page gives a short text for each country with a high average score.
Limits. The map shows what the feeds report, so a quiet country may only be one with few feeds. Levels are model ratings, not verified facts. Reports that arrive a few days late are added to the day the event happened.
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