Middle East / Iran · Politics

Iran displays anti-US billboards amid tensions

Rank
Running: 43h
Updated: 32h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 4 Oct, 02:41 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in العربية (1)

Read at Arab News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Arab News, 4 Oct, 02:41 UTC.
Second country: Hong Kong, with South China Morning Post.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with South China Morning Post.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 4 Oct, 05:35 UTC.
Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

60%40%

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 60%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%

First movers

Arab News 4 Oct, 02:41 UTC
South China Morning Post +2h 54m
ARY News +3h 4m
Al Modon +10h
Malay Mail +10h 19m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 3: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan. Middle East 2: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia. 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, English.
Timeline: Earliest article Arab News, 4 Oct 2026, 02:41 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 02:50 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 13:00 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 Middle East, Iran. Topic Politics. 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: 0.01, 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.
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

4 Oct 2026 154 3.70 5 5 5 5 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 02:50 UTC · Updated 13:00 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

Malay Mail Malaysia 4 Oct, 13:00 UTC
Iran turns Tehran billboards into a propaganda battlefield as anti-Trump imagery chronicles war
ARY News Pakistan 4 Oct, 05:45 UTC
Iran’s wartime billboards mock Trump, boast of victory
South China Morning Post Hong Kong 4 Oct, 05:35 UTC
Trump, burger, Hormuz: meet the Iranian team behind billboard war on US

Middle East 2 outlets

Al Modon Lebanon 4 Oct, 12:41 UTC
استديو خاص و"عصف ذهني": حكومة إيران تموّل لوحات ترامب
Arab News Saudi Arabia 4 Oct, 02:41 UTC
Tehran’s wartime billboards mock Trump, boast of victory