title: Alignment, Fractures, and Alternating Leadership in the Global Media Coverage of the Ukraine War
abstract: To gain new insights into global media coverage of the Ukraine war, we analyzed 190,864 English-language news posts published on the Facebook accounts of 112 media outlets across five continents during the first three and a half years of conflict. Using an integrated pipeline that combines network analysis, topic modeling, framing analysis, and audience-engagement modeling, we show how global media align on exogenous shocks—such as battlefield developments, weapons deliveries, nuclear risk, or a