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Polish activists launch abortion pill locker to bypass ban

Rank
Running
40h
Updated
31h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
5
Regions
1
Countries
5
Languages
5

+0

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 4 Oct, 05:00 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Français (1) · Nederlands (1) · Română (1) · Svenska (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 41 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Guardian, 4 Oct, 05:00 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with HotNews.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 4 Oct, 14:07 UTC.
  4. Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

41 of 41 hours

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The 5 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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  • Europe 5 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. The Guardian 4 Oct, 05:00 UTC
  2. HotNews +3h 1m
  3. Dagens Nyheter +4h 12m
  4. Libération +9h 7m
  5. RTL Nieuws +9h 24m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 5 countries. 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
Europe 5: France, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, 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, French, Dutch, Romanian, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article The Guardian, 4 Oct 2026, 05:00 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 05:10 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 14:23 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, Poland. 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
0.02, 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 143 3.94 5 5 5 5 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 05:10 UTC · Updated 14:23 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Europe 5 outlets

  • RTL Nieuws Netherlands 4 Oct, 14:23 UTC
    Polen krijgt eerste 'abortusautomaat': discreet pillen ophalen uit kluisje
  • Libération France 4 Oct, 14:07 UTC
    En Pologne, un distributeur de pilules abortives pour contourner la quasi-interdiction de l’avortement
  • Dagens Nyheter Sweden 4 Oct, 09:11 UTC
    Paketskåp nytt sätt att kringgå hård abortlag i Polen
  • HotNews Romania 4 Oct, 08:01 UTC
    Primul dulap automatizat de pastile pentru avort: Metoda inedită prin care activiștii polonezi păcălesc una dintre cele mai dure legi din Europa
  • The Guardian United Kingdom 4 Oct, 05:00 UTC
    Polish activists launch abortion pill locker to bypass near-total ban
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