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European Parliament members targeted by deepfake pornography

Rank
Running: 10h
Updated: 6h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 4

Politico Europe International · English 5 Oct, 16:54 UTC

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Read it also in Português (3) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Der Standard, 5 Oct, 15:18 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 5 Oct, 19:07 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

17%67%16%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Europe 4 outlets · 2 countries · 67%
International 1 outlet · 16%

First movers

Der Standard 5 Oct, 15:18 UTC
Infobae +1h 29m
Politico Europe +1h 36m
Observador +3h 49m
Público +4h 9m

Latest arrivals

RTP 5 Oct, 19:30 UTC
Público 5 Oct, 19:27 UTC
Observador 5 Oct, 19:07 UTC
Politico Europe 5 Oct, 16:54 UTC
Infobae 5 Oct, 16:47 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 2: Austria, Portugal. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article Der Standard, 5 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 19:30 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 Europe, European Union. 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: 1.58, 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.
Chain: Merged from 3 stories Metsola denuncia el acoso con pornografía 'deepfake' a 60 eurodiputadas: "Es intolerable y deplorable"; Una de cada seis eurodiputadas, afectadas por contenido pornográfico 'deepfake' en línea; EU Parliament members targeted by deepfake pornography. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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

5 Oct 2026 203 4.22 6 4 6 4 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 15:30 UTC · Updated 19:30 UTC

Merged from 3 stories

Metsola denuncia el acoso con pornografía 'deepfake' a 60 eurodiputadas: "Es intolerable y deplorable"2 outlets · 2 countries · started 5 Oct, 17:46 UTC
Una de cada seis eurodiputadas, afectadas por contenido pornográfico 'deepfake' en línea2 outlets · 2 countries · started 5 Oct, 16:47 UTC
EU Parliament members targeted by deepfake pornography3 outlets · 3 countries · started 5 Oct, 15:18 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Infobae Argentina 5 Oct, 17:46 UTC
Metsola denuncia el acoso con pornografía 'deepfake' a 60 eurodiputadas: "Es intolerable y deplorable"
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Una de cada seis eurodiputadas, afectadas por contenido pornográfico 'deepfake' en línea 5 Oct, 16:47 UTC

Europe 4 outlets

RTP Portugal 5 Oct, 19:30 UTC
"Sensação horrível". Cerca de 50 eurodeputados aparecem em pornografia "deepfake"
Público Portugal 5 Oct, 19:27 UTC
Cerca de 50 eurodeputados aparecem em pornografia deepfake
Observador Portugal 5 Oct, 19:07 UTC
Roberta Metsola promete resposta a deepfakes de deputados
Der Standard Austria 5 Oct, 15:18 UTC
Jede sechste EU-Parlamentarierin Opfer sexualisierter KI-Deepfakes

International 1 outlet

Politico Europe International 5 Oct, 16:54 UTC
50 members of European Parliament targeted by deepfake porn, report says