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European police forces drop Russian software firm

Rank
Ran: 3h
Updated: 5d ago
Closed
Outlets: 4
Regions: 1
Countries: 3
Languages: 3

Politico Europe International · English 30 Sept, 10:23 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Română (2) · +1 language

Read at Politico Europe

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Politico Europe, 30 Sept, 10:23 UTC.
Second region: Europe, with Onet.
Second country: Romania, with Digi24.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 30 Sept, 16:38 UTC.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 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

75%25%

Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 75%
International 1 outlet · 25%

First movers

Politico Europe 30 Sept, 10:23 UTC
Onet +5h 8m
Digi24 +6h 15m
HotNews +7h 2m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Russian surveillance software infiltrated European law enforcement agencies, 28 to 29 Sept 2026, 7 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 3 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 2: Poland, Romania. 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: English, Polish, Romanian.
Timeline: Earliest article Politico Europe, 30 Sept 2026, 10:23 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 14:20 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 17:25 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 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: 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: Continues Russian surveillance software infiltrated European law enforcement agencies. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 14:20 UTC · Updated 17:25 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Europe 3 outlets

International 1 outlet

Politico Europe International 30 Sept, 10:23 UTC
European police forces drop Russian software firm following POLITICO probe