How Kenyans are reacting to Parliament across mainstream media. Limited to
vetted sources — see our methodology.
Sentiment is not fact. This page reflects the tone of media
coverage as read by an AI classifier, not a scientific survey of public
opinion. Borderline classifications are held for editor review before
appearing here — see the methodology
for exactly how it works and its limits.
Sentiment analysis is ramping up. These figures are based on just
27 classified items so far — too few to represent the
public mood. Our pipeline ingests and classifies coverage from vetted mainstream
sources every few hours; the picture will fill out as more is analysed.
We track how Kenyans react to Parliament using coverage from
reputable mainstream media — established national newspapers
and the official channels of established TV and radio newsrooms. Every few hours
our pipeline ingests new articles and the public comments on those newsrooms'
official YouTube channels.
Each item is matched to policy topics (such as Healthcare, Education and the
Economy) and then classified as positive, neutral
or negative — with a score from −1.0 to +1.0 — by a large language
model that handles sarcasm and mixed sentiment conservatively. Scores are then
averaged by topic, by source and over time, and everything above is filterable by
date. Sentiment is indicative, not definitive. For the full process and the list of
sources, see the methodology.
