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White House defends new press secretary over controversial photo

Rank
Running
29h
Updated
10h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
1
Countries
7
Languages
6

+0

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 4 Oct, 23:38 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Deutsch (2) · Français (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Nederlands (1) · Română (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 30 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Guardian, 4 Oct, 23:38 UTC.
  2. Second country: Germany, with Der Spiegel.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 13:53 UTC.
  4. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

31 of 31 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

  • Europe 7 outlets · 7 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. The Guardian 4 Oct, 23:38 UTC
  2. Der Spiegel +5h 34m
  3. Kurier +10h 16m
  4. Le Figaro +14h 15m
  5. 15min +15h 3m

Latest arrivals

  1. Digi24 5 Oct, 19:24 UTC
  2. Het Laatste Nieuws 5 Oct, 15:45 UTC
  3. 15min 5 Oct, 14:41 UTC
  4. Le Figaro 5 Oct, 13:53 UTC
  5. Kurier 5 Oct, 09:54 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 7: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
German, English, French, Lithuanian, Dutch, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Guardian, 4 Oct 2026, 23:38 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 00:20 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 19:24 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.59, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
5 Oct 2026 193 4.33 7 7 6 6 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 00:20 UTC · Updated 19:24 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Europe 7 outlets

  • Digi24 Romania 5 Oct, 19:24 UTC
    Noua purtătoare de cuvânt a lui Donald Trump stârnește deja polemici. Pușca de asalt și tricoul cu „F... Joe Biden”
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 5 Oct, 15:45 UTC
    Nieuwe woordvoerster Witte Huis nu al onder vuur vanwege foto met geweer en ‘Fuck Joe Biden’-shirt
  • 15min Lithuania 5 Oct, 14:41 UTC
    Šalia Trumpo – nauja 24 metų atstovė spaudai: pagarsėjo nuotrauka su šautuvu ir marškinėliais su užrašu „F...k Joe Biden“
  • Le Figaro France 5 Oct, 13:53 UTC
    Un fusil d’assaut et un tee-shirt «Fuck Joe Biden» : une photo de la nouvelle attachée de presse de la Maison-Blanche provoque la controverse
  • Kurier Austria 5 Oct, 09:54 UTC
    Ex-Journalistin mit „F**k Biden“-Shirt ist nun Trumps Sprecherin
  • Der Spiegel Germany 5 Oct, 05:13 UTC
    USA: Weißes Haus verteidigt neue Sprecherin, die mit Gewehr und »Fuck Joe Biden«-Shirt auftrat
  • The Guardian United Kingdom 4 Oct, 23:38 UTC
    White House defends new press aide who posed with rifle in ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ shirt
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