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Morocco accused of spying on journalists and activists

Rank
Ran
34h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
3

+0

INTLAllAfrica International · English 1 Oct, 04:51 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Español (2) · Français (1) · +1 language

Read at AllAfrica

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 34 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: AllAfrica, 1 Oct, 04:51 UTC.
  2. Second region: Europe, with ABC.
  3. Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 15:04 UTC.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

35 of 35 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

29%14%29%14%14%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • International 1 outlet · 14%

First movers

  1. INTLAllAfrica 1 Oct, 04:51 UTC
  2. ABC +1h 59m
  3. Infobae +4h 2m
  4. Al Jazeera +10h 13m
  5. Africanews +10h 48m

Last to join

  1. RFI 2 Oct, 15:18 UTC
  2. TSA Algérie 1 Oct, 16:15 UTC
  3. Africanews 1 Oct, 15:39 UTC
  4. Al Jazeera 1 Oct, 15:04 UTC
  5. Infobae 1 Oct, 08:52 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 2: Algeria, Republic of the Congo. Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 2: France, Spain. Middle East 1: Qatar. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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
English, Spanish, French.
Timeline
Earliest article AllAfrica, 1 Oct 2026, 04:51 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 05:00 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 15:18 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 Africa, Morocco. 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
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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
1 Oct 2026 291 4.14 6 6 6 6 4.0
2 Oct 2026 263 4.45 7 7 1 1 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 05:00 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 15:18 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • TSA Algérie Algeria 1 Oct, 16:15 UTC
    Maroc : surveillance, chantage et caméras cachées pour faire taire opposants et journalistes
  • Africanews Republic of the Congo 1 Oct, 15:39 UTC
    Amnesty accuses Morocco of spying on activists and journalists

Americas 1 outlet

  • Infobae Argentina 1 Oct, 08:52 UTC
    Un nuevo informe señala a Marruecos por espiar con Pegasus o cámaras ocultas y por campañas de difamación: “Hay leyes que nadie respeta”

Europe 2 outlets

  • RFI France 2 Oct, 15:18 UTC
    Moroccan intelligence accused of spying on journalists and human rights activists
  • ABC Spain 1 Oct, 06:50 UTC
    Amnistía Internacional destapa la red ilegal de espionaje de Marruecos tras la confesión de un agente de inteligencia

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Al Jazeera Qatar 1 Oct, 15:04 UTC
    Moroccan intelligence uses surveillance to ‘silence’ journalists: Amnesty

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAllAfrica International 1 Oct, 04:51 UTC
    Morocco: Whistleblower Reveals How Authorities Used a Web of Surveillance to Silence Journalists and Activists
Read at AllAfrica

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