Open-source media monitoring
Mediacloud
News-corpus access for tracking how stories travel across outlets.
Research and data
Built on traceable public data.
DriveAwareness ingests, mirrors, and publishes public data. Researchers, institutions, and editorial partners can plug in — and contribute back.
For the verification standard behind every published signal, see our methodology.
Data sources
What we ingest.
Global event database
GDELT
Cross-language news and event extraction for coverage-gap analysis.
Search interest signal
Google Trends
Regional and temporal interest as one input to attention-economics tracking.
Ad transparency archives
Meta / Google / TikTok ad libraries
Sponsor, run dates, targeting basics. Documented in detail on /community/ad-transparency.
FOIA-style civic data
Public records (state & federal)
Mirrored where licenses permit; transformed into source-traceable records on this site.
Verified public reports
Witness submissions
Inbound from /community/report. Verified before publication; pseudonyms supported.
Endpoints
What we publish.
Read-only public APIs are open. Researcher endpoints — higher rate limits, fuller history, additional fields — require a key. Email info@driveawareness.org with your institution and a one-line description of the work.
/api/signalsRecent verified signals with domain, location, and summary. Read-only, no auth required.
/api/ads-transparencyCross-platform ad-archive search and aggregation. Researcher access requires a key.
/api/narrative-dataAggregated coverage-trend signals across outlets and topics. Researcher access requires a key.
Collaboration
Four pathways for working together.
Co-authorship
Joint working papers and peer-reviewed articles. We bring source-traceable data and methodology; partners bring domain expertise and institutional review.
Replication kits
For published cases, we publish a replication kit: data, transformation steps, and the methodology that produced the conclusion. Anyone can run it.
IRB-friendly handling
Witness data is anonymized at ingestion. No personally-identifying information is shared with research partners without explicit consent and IRB approval.
Student cohorts
Semester-length investigative engagements with university programs. Students contribute under supervision; the academic partner anchors review.
Have a research question we can help answer?
We work best with partners who already have a question and want traceable data to test it against. The first conversation is short and concrete: what are you asking, what data would settle it, and what do we need from each other.