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Starbucks sued over false 'sugar-free' protein drink labels

Rank
Running
36h
Updated
9h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
9
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
4

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CTV News Canada · English 5 Oct, 19:00 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · Nederlands (1) · Português (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 37 hours.

5 10
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: G1, 5 Oct, 16:26 UTC.
  2. Second country: Canada, with CTV News.
  3. Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 6 Oct, 07:55 UTC.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

37 of 37 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

56%33%

  • Americas 5 outlets · 3 countries · 56%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 33%

First movers

  1. G1 5 Oct, 16:26 UTC
  2. CTV News +2h 34m
  3. The Independent +4h 25m
  4. El País +15h 29m
  5. ARY News +15h 39m

Latest arrivals

  1. Global News 6 Oct, 20:05 UTC
  2. ABC News 6 Oct, 18:45 UTC
  3. NU.nl 6 Oct, 18:04 UTC
  4. NBC News 6 Oct, 16:30 UTC
  5. ARY News 6 Oct, 08:05 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 3: Brazil, Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Pakistan. Europe 3: Netherlands, Spain, 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, Dutch, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article G1, 5 Oct 2026, 16:26 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 16:40 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 20:05 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 Americas, United States. Topic Business & economy. 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
0.60, 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
5 Oct 2026 345 2.94 3 3 3 3 4.1
6 Oct 2026 359 3.00 9 7 6 5 4.6

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Started 5 Oct, 16:40 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 20:05 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Americas 5 outlets

  • Global News Canada 6 Oct, 20:05 UTC
    U.S. class action lawsuit alleges Starbucks mislabelled sugar-free drinks
  • ABC News United States 6 Oct, 18:45 UTC
    WATCH: Lawsuit accuses Starbucks of mislabeling 8 'sugar-free' protein drinks
  • NBC News United States 6 Oct, 16:30 UTC
    Consumers sue Starbucks over ‘sugar-free’ drinks containing up to 21g of sugar
  • CTV News Canada 5 Oct, 19:00 UTC
    Starbucks sued over ‘sugar-free’ claims for protein beverages
  • G1 Brazil 5 Oct, 16:26 UTC
    Starbucks é processada nos EUA por bebidas anunciadas como 'sem açúcar'

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • ARY News Pakistan 6 Oct, 08:05 UTC
    Starbucks sued over ‘sugar-free’ claims for protein beverages

Europe 3 outlets

  • NU.nl Netherlands 6 Oct, 18:04 UTC
    Acht 'suikervrije' Starbucks-dranken bevatten suiker en zorgen voor rechtszaak
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    • Acht 'suikervrije' Starbucks-dranken bevatten suiker, consumenten naar rechter 6 Oct, 18:04 UTC
  • El País Spain 6 Oct, 07:55 UTC
    Starbucks es demandada por anunciar bebidas proteicas como ‘sin azúcar’
  • The Independent United Kingdom 5 Oct, 20:51 UTC
    A lawsuit accuses Starbucks of mislabeling 8 'sugar-free' protein drinks
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