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Meta's Muse AI agent exposes user's home address without consent

Rank
Ran: 42h
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 7
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 28 Sept, 23:31 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Español (3) · +1 language

Read at The Guardian

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Guardian, 28 Sept, 23:31 UTC.
Second country: Brazil, with Estadão.
Second region: Americas, with Estadão.
Last article: 7 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

71%29%

Americas 5 outlets · 4 countries · 71%
Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 29%

First movers

The Guardian 28 Sept, 23:31 UTC
Estadão +14h 58m
El Comercio +17h 52m
The Independent +22h 31m
Semana +26h 32m

Last to join

Infobae 30 Sept, 18:35 UTC
G1 30 Sept, 13:00 UTC
Semana 30 Sept, 02:04 UTC
The Independent 29 Sept, 22:02 UTC
El Comercio 29 Sept, 17:24 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 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 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru. Europe 1: United Kingdom. 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, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Guardian, 28 Sept 2026, 23:31 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 23:50 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 18:35 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.
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

29 Sept 2026 331 3.71 4 3 3 3 3.3 → 4.0

30 Sept 2026 270 4.67 7 5 3 3 4.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 28 Sept, 23:50 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 18:35 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 5 outlets

Infobae Argentina 30 Sept, 18:35 UTC
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G1 Brazil 30 Sept, 13:00 UTC
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Semana Colombia 30 Sept, 02:04 UTC
La nueva IA de Meta cometió un grave error: dio la dirección de un usuario a un desconocido sin autorización
El Comercio Peru 29 Sept, 17:24 UTC
Muse habría dado la dirección de un usuario a un comprador de Facebook Marketplace sin su consentimiento
Estadão Brazil 29 Sept, 14:30 UTC
Agente de IA da Meta vende produto e expõe endereço de usuário no Facebook

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
29 Sept 2026	331	3.71	4	3	3	3	3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026	270	4.67	7	5	3	3	4.0

Covered by 7 outlets

Americas 5 outlets

Europe 2 outlets