Geotone — Global News Signals

Measured conclusion: Deep-tested. L2 outcome: tools_ok.

Live global news signals: ranked wire, story timelines, coverage volume/tone/surges. Free, no auth.

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Copy this into your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Geotone — Global News Signals": {
      "url": "https://geotone.news/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Measured tools (9)

• get_trending read-only

  What's surging in global news right now: topics whose coverage is ≥2 standard deviations above their trailing average (z-score), the biggest week-over-week movers, and surging countries. Derived every 3 hours from GDELT across 65+ languages.

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

• get_topic read-only

  Live media-coverage statistics for one geopolitical topic (e.g. 'ukraine-war', 'taiwan-strait', 'sanctions'): daily volume and tone series, z-score, week-over-week change, and a sample of recent articles (headline+link only). Returns the latest 30 days by default; pass response_format='detailed' for the full 90. Use search_topics to find slugs.

  Parameters:

  • slug (required) — string — Topic slug, e.g. 'ukraine-war'
  • response_format — string — concise (default): summary stats + the latest 30 days of the series. detailed: the full 90-day series and article sample (~3x the tokens).

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

• get_country read-only

  Live media-coverage statistics for one country by ISO-3166 alpha-2 code (e.g. 'ua', 'cn'): daily series (latest 30 days by default; response_format='detailed' for 90) of coverage volume (share of world news coverage that is about that country) and tone, plus armed-conflict fatalities (UCDP, trailing 12 months), displacement stocks (UNHCR: IDPs, refugees, asylum seekers), and coverage origin (what share of coverage about the country is produced by its own outlets vs abroad).

  Parameters:

  • iso2 (required) — string — ISO2 code, e.g. 'ua'
  • response_format — string — concise (default): summary stats + the latest 30 days of the series. detailed: the full 90-day series and article sample (~3x the tokens).

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

• get_relation read-only

  Bilateral co-coverage signal for a monitored country pair (e.g. a='cn', b='us'): how much the world's press mentions the two countries together, and in what tone. ~50 strategic pairs are monitored.

  Parameters:

  • a (required) — string — First country ISO2
  • b (required) — string — Second country ISO2
  • response_format — string — concise (default): summary stats + the latest 30 days of the series. detailed: the full 90-day series and article sample (~3x the tokens).

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

• search_topics read-only

  Search Geotone's tracked geopolitical topics by keyword (matches name, slug, and description). Returns slugs usable with get_topic, plus each topic's current coverage stats.

  Parameters:

  • query (required) — string — Keyword, e.g. 'nuclear' or 'china'

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

• get_briefing read-only

  Geotone's daily global risk briefing for a date (YYYY-MM-DD): an analytical summary of coverage surges, tone shifts, and notable movers, with the statistics behind each claim.

  Parameters:

  • date (required) — string — UTC date, e.g. 2026-07-02

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

• get_outbreaks read-only

  Disease outbreak events indexed from the WHO Disease Outbreak News (facts and links; WHO's assessments live at the linked pages), each with Geotone's measured news attention: articles carrying the disease in GDELT's thematic tagging across all languages, trailing 14 days vs the prior 14. status 'active' means a WHO update within 90 days; outbreaks are never marked ended by feed disappearance. DON covers internationally significant events and is not exhaustive — absence here is not absence of disease.

  Parameters:

  • limit — number — Max outbreaks (default 30)
  • status — string — Filter by status (default active)

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

• get_wire read-only

  The live wire: the world's most significant stories right now, ranked by a published formula (authority-weighted outlet breadth, boosted by consequence themes, coded events, and casualty figures, decayed by recency over 72h). Each story carries one representative link, outlet count, tone, countries, non-English source languages that also reported the event, and a chain_id when it belongs to a multi-day story timeline (fetch with get_story_chain). Reclustered every 3 hours.

  Parameters:

  • limit — number — Max stories to return (default 20)

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

• get_story_chain read-only

  A story timeline: the threaded developments of one multi-day event chain, oldest first (e.g. attack → casualties confirmed → international reaction). Use the chain_id values returned by get_wire. Each development is a headline + link + outlet count + tone.

  Parameters:

  • chain_id (required) — number — Chain id from get_wire

  Hints: read-only yes · destructive not declared · idempotent not declared · open-world no

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