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China obtained F-35 fighter jet parts via missed UPS email

Rank
Running: 33h
Updated: 18h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 9
Regions: 4
Countries: 6
Languages: 4

Bloomberg United States · English 7 Oct, 19:17 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Русский (2) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Bloomberg, 7 Oct, 19:17 UTC.
Second country: Russia, with Kommersant.
Second region: Europe, with Kommersant.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 8 Oct, 04:35 UTC.
Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

22%22%45%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 1 country · 22%
Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 22%
Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 45%

First movers

Bloomberg 7 Oct, 19:17 UTC
Kommersant +4h 44m
Anadolu Agency +6h 6m
Shargh +9h 19m
Vedomosti +9h 51m

Latest arrivals

Israel Hayom (he) 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC
Times of India 8 Oct, 08:46 UTC
NDTV 8 Oct, 07:17 UTC
Khabar Online 8 Oct, 05:46 UTC
Vedomosti 8 Oct, 05:07 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 6 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 1: India. Europe 1: Russia. Middle East 3: Iran, Israel, Turkey. 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, Persian, Hebrew, Russian.
Timeline: Earliest article Bloomberg, 7 Oct 2026, 19:17 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 19:20 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 10:05 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 Conflict & security. 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: 0.18, 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

8 Oct 2026 215 4.06 9 6 8 5 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 19:20 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 10:05 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Bloomberg United States 7 Oct, 22:49 UTC
UPS Worker Missed Email, Letting China Get F-35 Parts
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- UPS Worker Missed Security Email, Letting China Get F-35 Parts 7 Oct, 19:17 UTC

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Times of India India 8 Oct, 08:46 UTC
One missed email: How China got hold of sensitive US F-35 stealth fighter parts
NDTV India 8 Oct, 07:17 UTC
How A Missed Email By A UPS Worker May Have Landed US' F-35 Jet Tech At China's Door

Covered by 9 outlets

Americas 1 outlet

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Europe 2 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets