Its quietest recent week still sits 38% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.
Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.
How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.
Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.
Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.
No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.
Since October 2023, the government of Israel has been accused of committing genocide against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip by several states across the world. The government of South Africa formally accused the country of genocide in December that year in a case before the International Court of Justice, with 14 countries joining the case by December the next year. Explicit state positions on the genocide include recognition, denial, or deferral to the ultimate result of the pending case. Acts of…
Excerpt from Gaza genocide recognition on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.