Asia-Pacific / Fiji · Conflict & Security

Cocaine evidence replaced with flour in Fiji court

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 4
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 1

GMA News Philippines · English 29 Sept, 10:13 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

The only language so far · English, 4 reports

Read at GMA News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: GMA News, 29 Sept, 10:13 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Independent.
Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

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

The regions

75%25%

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 2 countries · 75%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%

First movers

GMA News 29 Sept, 10:13 UTC
The Independent +3h 9m
RNZ +9h 19m
Stuff +12h 48m

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 1 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 2: New Zealand, Philippines. Europe 1: 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: English.
Timeline: Earliest article GMA News, 29 Sept 2026, 10:13 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 10:20 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 08:41 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, Fiji. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news, unsure. 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: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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.
Chain: Continued by Cocaine-for-flour swap could threaten drug prosecution, Fiji lawyer says. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

29 Sept 2026 297 4.05 4 3 4 3 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 10:20 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 08:41 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

RNZ New Zealand 30 Sept, 02:15 UTC
Six persons of interest identified in court cocaine case, Fiji Police says
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- Fiji's prosecutions office defends drug disposal protocols after cocaine turns to flour 30 Sept, 00:56 UTC
- 'A sad indictment': 40kg of cocaine held in Fiji court replaced with flour 29 Sept, 19:32 UTC
Stuff New Zealand 29 Sept, 23:02 UTC
'A sad indictment': Flour replaces nearly 40kg of cocaine exhibit in Fiji court
GMA News Philippines 29 Sept, 10:13 UTC
Cocaine evidence in Fiji court replaced with flour, media say

Europe 1 outlet

The Independent United Kingdom 1 Oct, 08:41 UTC
Major £10.4m cocaine haul missing from court and replaced with flour
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- Major cocaine haul missing from court and replaced with flour 29 Sept, 13:22 UTC