Artificial intelligence-driven insights into Arab media's sustainable development goals coverage.

ABSTRACT: This study examines how Arab media have engaged with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the past decade and evaluates the alignment between media coverage and official government priorities. The research addresses the lack of large-scale, Arabic-focused analyses in SDG discourse, which is often dominated by English-language studies. We collected and processed a unique dataset of over 1.2 million Arabic news articles from ten countries between 2010 and 2024. Using a combination of data augmentation, deep learning (specifically, Transformer-based models), and large language models (LLMs), we trained classifiers to detect references to the SDGs and categorize articles by specific SDGs. The results reveal regional patterns in SDG coverage, with North African countries

SUBMITTER: Alsuhaibani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12453826 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature