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Taiwan indicts 10 for smuggling US military chips to China

Rank
Running
36h
Updated
19h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
3
Countries
5
Languages
4

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Focus Taiwan Taiwan · English 6 Oct, 12:26 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Español (2) · Português (1) · 中文 (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 39 hours.

2 4 6
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Focus Taiwan, 6 Oct, 12:26 UTC.
  2. Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 05:30 UTC.
  5. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

39 of 39 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%50%17%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 2 countries · 50%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%

First movers

  1. Focus Taiwan 6 Oct, 12:26 UTC
  2. Liberty Times +6h 33m
  3. Infobae +15h 49m
  4. RTP +17h 4m
  5. RPP +17h 29m

Latest arrivals

  1. GMA News 7 Oct, 07:39 UTC
  2. RPP 7 Oct, 05:55 UTC
  3. RTP 7 Oct, 05:30 UTC
  4. Infobae 7 Oct, 04:16 UTC
  5. Liberty Times 6 Oct, 19:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Argentina, Peru. Asia-Pacific 2: Philippines, Taiwan. Europe 1: Portugal. 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, Portuguese, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Focus Taiwan, 6 Oct 2026, 12:26 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 14:30 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 07:39 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 Asia-Pacific, Taiwan. Topic Technology. 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
0.15, 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
7 Oct 2026 200 4.25 6 5 4 4 4.6

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Started 6 Oct, 14:30 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 07:39 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • RPP Peru 7 Oct, 05:55 UTC
    Taiwán procesa a 10 personas por desviar chips militares de EE.UU. a China por Hong Kong
  • Infobae Argentina 7 Oct, 04:16 UTC
    Taiwán procesa a 10 personas por desviar chips militares de EE.UU. a China por Hong Kong

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • GMA News Philippines 7 Oct, 07:39 UTC
    Taiwan indicts 10 for alleged resale of US chips to China
  • Liberty Times Taiwan 6 Oct, 19:00 UTC
    《TAIPEI TIMES》Ten indicted for smuggling chips, fraud
  • Focus Taiwan Taiwan 6 Oct, 12:26 UTC
    10 indicted for reselling restricted chips to Hong Kong for China

Europe 1 outlet

  • RTP Portugal 7 Oct, 06:28 UTC
    Justiça de Taiwan processa dez pessoas por desvio de chips militares dos EUA para a China
    +2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
    • Justiça de Taiwan processa 10 pessoas por desvio de chips militares dos EUA para a China 7 Oct, 05:50 UTC
    • Justiça de Taiwan processa 10 pessoas por desvio de chips militares dos EUA para a China 7 Oct, 05:30 UTC
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