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EU considers new corporate tax targeting US tech giants

Rank
Running
23h
Updated
14h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
9
Regions
2
Countries
8
Languages
5

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Financial Times United Kingdom · English 7 Oct, 04:00 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Русский (2) · Deutsch (1) · Polski (1) · 中文 (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 24 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Financial Times, 7 Oct, 04:00 UTC.
  2. Second country: Singapore, with CNA.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with CNA.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 7 Oct, 07:41 UTC.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

24 of 24 hours

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The 8 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 3 outlets · 3 countries · 33%
  • Europe 6 outlets · 5 countries · 67%

First movers

  1. Financial Times 7 Oct, 04:00 UTC
  2. CNA +1h 18m
  3. Free Malaysia Today +1h 59m
  4. Liberty Times +3h 41m
  5. Cyprus Mail +3h 56m

Latest arrivals

  1. Der Spiegel 7 Oct, 12:54 UTC
  2. TVN24 7 Oct, 11:11 UTC
  3. Vedomosti 7 Oct, 08:50 UTC
  4. Kommersant 7 Oct, 08:00 UTC
  5. Cyprus Mail 7 Oct, 07:56 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 8 countries, across 2 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
Asia-Pacific 3: Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan. Europe 5: Cyprus, Germany, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom. 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
German, English, Polish, Russian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Financial Times, 7 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 04:20 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 12:54 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 Business & economy. 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
0.43, 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 113 6.60 9 8 9 8 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 04:20 UTC · Updated 12:54 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Liberty Times Taiwan 7 Oct, 07:41 UTC
    歐盟擬擴大企業課稅 美科技巨頭恐受影響
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 7 Oct, 05:58 UTC
    Brussels looks to capture Big Tech through tax on large corporations
  • CNA Singapore 7 Oct, 05:17 UTC
    Brussels looks to capture Big Tech through tax on large corporations, FT reports

Europe 6 outlets

  • Der Spiegel Germany 7 Oct, 12:54 UTC
    EU erwägt offenbar Großkonzern-Abgabe statt Digitalsteuer
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • EU erwägt offenbar Großkonzern-Abgabe statt Digitalsteuer nach Trump-Drohungen 7 Oct, 12:54 UTC
  • TVN24 Poland 7 Oct, 11:11 UTC
    Bruksela planuje nowy podatek. Obejmie "praktycznie wszystkie duże korporacje"
  • Vedomosti Russia 7 Oct, 08:50 UTC
    FT: ЕС ищет способ увеличить налоги для американских техногигантов
  • Kommersant Russia 7 Oct, 08:00 UTC
    FT: ЕС планирует отдельный налог для американских технологических корпораций
  • Cyprus Mail Cyprus 7 Oct, 07:56 UTC
    EU weighs broader corporate tax to capture US tech revenues
  • Financial Times United Kingdom 7 Oct, 04:00 UTC
    Brussels looks to capture Big Tech through tax on large corporations
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