When the voting booths closed in France last Sunday, perhaps the most surprising result was that the opinion polls had for once been right.

Will Marine Le Pen win the French presidential election and continue the populist revolution…?

Using a unique dataset, we built a live tracker for the 2017 French presidential election which shows how much attention each candidate received online.

Today, we are announcing the release of the Social Media Index (SMI), the first global real-time indicator that shows the impact of social media on online news consumption…