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Germany backs Tesla autonomous driving approval in EU

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Running: 36h
Updated: 35h ago
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Outlets: 2
Regions: 2
Countries: 2
Languages: 1

Merged into Slovakia to approve Tesla's autonomous driving technology

Infobae Argentina · Spanish 7 Oct, 15:30 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Spanish, 2 reports

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Infobae, 7 Oct, 15:30 UTC.
Second country: Spain, with elDiario.es.
Second region: Europe, with elDiario.es.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 15:30 UTC.
Now: 2 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 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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Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%

First movers

Infobae 7 Oct, 15:30 UTC
elDiario.es +50m

The figures

Coverage: 2 outlets in 2 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 2 outlets, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 1: Spain. 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: Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article Infobae, 7 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 16:20 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, Germany. 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 of its own. It was merged into Slovakia to approve Tesla's autonomous driving technology, and the map counts it only inside that story. 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 into Slovakia to approve Tesla's autonomous driving technology. 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.

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Started 7 Oct, 15:40 UTC · Updated 16:20 UTC

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Americas 1 outlet

Infobae Argentina 7 Oct, 15:30 UTC
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Europe 1 outlet

elDiario.es Spain 7 Oct, 16:20 UTC
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