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France defeats Belgium 4-1 in Nations League match

Rank
Running
4h
Updated
4h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
10
Regions
4
Countries
10
Languages
9

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Punch Nigeria · English 5 Oct, 21:40 UTC

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Read it also in Español (2) · Deutsch (1) · Français (1) · Português (1) · Türkçe (1) · Русский (1) · العربية (1) · فارسی (1) · +7 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 5 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Público, 5 Oct, 20:43 UTC.
  2. Second country: Tunisia, with Mosaïque FM.
  3. Second region: Africa, with Mosaïque FM.
  4. Fastest hour: +10 outlets from 5 Oct, 20:43 UTC.
  5. Now: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

6 of 6 hours

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The 10 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 3 outlets · 3 countries · 30%
  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 30%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%

First movers

  1. Público 5 Oct, 20:43 UTC
  2. Mosaïque FM +5m
  3. Interfax +13m
  4. Shargh +22m
  5. Reforma +26m

Latest arrivals

  1. Punch 5 Oct, 21:40 UTC
  2. Hürriyet 5 Oct, 21:36 UTC
  3. Infobae 5 Oct, 21:30 UTC
  4. PressAfrik 5 Oct, 21:26 UTC
  5. Der Standard 5 Oct, 21:18 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 10 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 3: Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia. Americas 2: Argentina, Mexico. Europe 3: Austria, Portugal, Russia. Middle East 2: Iran, Turkey. 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, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish.
Timeline
Earliest article Público, 5 Oct 2026, 20:43 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 21:10 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 21:40 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 Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off 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
6.05, 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 2 stories France defeats Belgium in UEFA Nations League match; France defeats Belgium 4-1, Italy beats Turkey. 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 43 12.05 10 10 10 10 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 21:10 UTC · Updated 21:40 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

  • France defeats Belgium in UEFA Nations League match7 outlets · 7 countries · started 5 Oct, 20:57 UTC
  • France defeats Belgium 4-1, Italy beats Turkey3 outlets · 3 countries · started 5 Oct, 20:43 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Africa 3 outlets

  • Punch Nigeria 5 Oct, 21:40 UTC
    Olise powers France to win over Belgium in Nations League
  • PressAfrik Senegal 5 Oct, 21:26 UTC
    Ligue des Nations : l’Équipe de France étrille la Belgique en 14 minutes
  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 5 Oct, 20:49 UTC
    فرنسا تقلب الطاولة على بلجيكا برباعية وإيطاليا تجدد فوزها ضد تركيا

Americas 2 outlets

  • Infobae Argentina 5 Oct, 21:30 UTC
    (Crónica) Francia firma una remontada con goleada ante Bélgica e Italia vuelve a ganar a Turquía
  • Reforma Mexico 5 Oct, 21:10 UTC
    Francia despierta y golea a B�lgica

Europe 3 outlets

  • Der Standard Austria 5 Oct, 21:18 UTC
    Joker drehten Partie für Frankreich spät: 4:1 über Belgien
  • Interfax Russia 5 Oct, 20:57 UTC
    Сборная Франции разгромила Бельгию в матче Лиги наций УЕФА
  • Público Portugal 5 Oct, 20:43 UTC
    A França renovada deu a volta a Lukebakio

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Hürriyet Turkey 5 Oct, 21:36 UTC
    Fransa 4-1 Belçika (UEFA Uluslar Ligi) Lukaku...
  • Shargh Iran 5 Oct, 21:05 UTC
    نتیجه بازی فرانسه و بلژیک؛ ۴ بر یک
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