Wall Street Journal Uses AI to Reveal Sharp Decline in Conservative Podcast Trump Coverage

The Wall Street Journal deployed an artificial intelligence tool to analyze 70,000 hours of conservative podcast content and found that mentions of Donald Trump have collapsed by nearly 70% from their 2024 election peak, signaling a dramatic shift in right-wing media focus ahead of the midterm elections. The analysis, which examined more than 22,100 podcast episodes across 148 shows, marks one of the largest-scale deployments of AI journalism to track political messaging trends.