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AI error nearly triggered US-China military incident

Rank
Ran
47h
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
39
Regions
4
Countries
29
Languages
13

+18

Where it travelled

The 29 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

31%25%36%

  • Americas 12 outlets · 9 countries · 31%
  • Asia-Pacific 10 outlets · 5 countries · 25%
  • Europe 14 outlets · 12 countries · 36%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 8%

The figures

Coverage
39 outlets in 29 countries, across 4 regions, 2 of them trade press. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 39 outlets, 3 public-service, 36 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 9: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 5: Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan. Europe 12: Austria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article CTV News, 18 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. First seen 18 Sept 2026, 17:10 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 17:05 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 International. Topic Technology. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). 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
22.89, at the end of the last day measured. 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
18 Sept 2026 90 13.20 13 11 – – 1.3
19 Sept 2026 13 34.53 33 26 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 28 22.89 39 29 2 2 1.4 → 2.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 18 Sept, 17:10 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 17:05 UTC

Covered by 39 outlets

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Americas 12 outlets

  • BioBioChile Chile
  • Clarín Argentina
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Financiero Mexico
  • El Sol de México Mexico
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Estadão Brazil
  • gCaptain United States
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica
  • Prensa Libre Guatemala

Asia-Pacific 10 outlets

  • 24.kg Kyrgyzstan
  • FNN Japan
  • Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong
  • Marine Insight India
  • NDTV India
  • Taipei Times Taiwan
  • The Hindu India
  • The Indian Express India
  • The Japan Times Japan
  • Times of India India

Europe 14 outlets

  • ANSA Italy
  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • ERT Greece
  • Gazeta Wyborcza Poland
  • Kommersant Russia
  • Le Figaro France
  • Le Monde France
  • Libération France
  • N1 Serbia
  • ORF Austria
  • Philenews Cyprus
  • RTP Portugal
  • Telex Hungary
  • The Independent United Kingdom

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel

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