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Rank
Running: 21h
Updated: 17h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 3
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 3

Al Sharq Qatar · Arabic 5 Oct, 07:20 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Indonesia (1) · +1 language

Read at Al Sharq

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Sharq, 5 Oct, 07:20 UTC.
Second country: Indonesia, with Media Indonesia.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Media Indonesia.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 11:00 UTC.
Now: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%67%

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

Al Sharq 5 Oct, 07:20 UTC
Media Indonesia +3h 40m
Israel Hayom (he) +3h 58m

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Indonesia. Middle East 2: Israel, Qatar. 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: Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian.
Timeline: Earliest article Al Sharq, 5 Oct 2026, 07:20 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 07:40 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 11:18 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 International. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off 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: 0.16, 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 300 3.30 3 3 3 3 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 07:40 UTC · Updated 11:18 UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Media Indonesia Indonesia 5 Oct, 11:00 UTC
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Covered by 3 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Middle East 2 outlets