World Leaders Comment on Attack in Bulgaria
From the post:
Following the terror attack in Bulgaria killing a number of Israeli tourists on an airport bus, we can see the statements from world leaders around the globe including Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly pinning the blame on Iran and threatening retaliation
If you haven’t seen one of the visualizations by Recorded Future you will be impressed by this one. Mousing over people and locations invokes what we would call scoping in a topic map context and limits the number of connections you see. And each node can lead to additional information.
While this works like a topic map, I can’t say it is a topic map application because how it works isn’t disclosed. You can read How Recorded Future Works, but you won’t be any better informed than before you read it.
Impressive work but it isn’t clear how I would integrate their matching of sources to say an internal mapping of sources? Or how I would augment their mapping with additional mappings by internal subject experts?
Or how I would map this incident to prior incidents which lead to disproportionate responses?
Or map “terrorist” attacks by the world leaders now decrying other “terrorist” attacks?
That last mapping could be an interesting one for the application of the term “terrorist.” My anecdotal experience is that it depends on the sponsor.
Would be interesting to know if systematic analysis supports that observation.
Perhaps the news media could then evenly identify the probable sponsors of “terrorists” attacks.