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Americas / Brazil · Politics

Lula says Brazil cannot lose democracy, however flawed it is

Rank
Running
10h
Updated
5h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
5
Regions
2
Countries
3
Languages
2

Valor Econômico Brazil · Portuguese 11 Oct, 16:28 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Español (2) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 11 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Valor Econômico, 11 Oct, 16:28 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 11 Oct, 16:28 UTC.
  3. Second country: Spain, with El País.
  4. Second region: Europe, with El País.
  5. Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

12 of 12 hours

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

The regions

80%20%

  • Americas 4 outlets · 2 countries · 80%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%

First movers

  1. Valor Econômico 11 Oct, 16:28 UTC
  2. Brasil 247 +5m
  3. El País +2h 10m
  4. La Tercera +4h 48m
  5. Metrópoles +5h 8m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, Chile. Europe 1: Spain. 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
Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article Valor Econômico, 11 Oct 2026, 16:28 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 16:50 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 21:36 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, Brazil. 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
1.19, 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
11 Oct 2026 232 3.30 5 3 5 3 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 11 Oct, 16:50 UTC · Updated 21:36 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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  • Metrópoles Brazil 11 Oct, 21:36 UTC
    Defesa da democracia e virada de votos mobilizam ato com Lula na Paulista
  • La Tercera Chile 11 Oct, 21:16 UTC
    “Este país no puede perder la democracia”: Lula congrega a cerca de un millón de seguidores en Sao Paulo
  • El País Spain 11 Oct, 18:37 UTC
    Lula saca a la calle una marea roja para emprender la remontada y ganar las elecciones
  • Brasil 247 Brazil 11 Oct, 16:33 UTC
    “Brasil não pode perder a democracia, por pior que ela seja”, diz Lula
  • Valor Econômico Brazil 11 Oct, 16:28 UTC
    Em ato na Paulista, Lula diz que país não pode perder a democracia 'por pior que ela seja'
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