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Taiwan receives first two F-16V fighter jets from US

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 13
Regions: 3
Countries: 10
Languages: 9

Focus Taiwan Taiwan · English 2 Oct, 04:13 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Français (2) · +7 languages

Read at Focus Taiwan

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Liberty Times, 1 Oct, 06:08 UTC.
Second country: Thailand, with Thairath.
Second region: Americas, with Clarín.
Fastest hour: +6 outlets from 2 Oct, 04:56 UTC.
Last article: 13 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 10 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

15%62%23%

Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 15%
Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 6 countries · 62%
Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 23%

First movers

Liberty Times 1 Oct, 06:08 UTC
ETtoday +1h 18m
Thairath +22h 3m
Focus Taiwan +22h 5m
Clarín +22h 22m

Last to join

TBS News Dig 2 Oct, 07:25 UTC
Thanh Niên 2 Oct, 07:15 UTC
Le Figaro 2 Oct, 05:55 UTC
ERT 2 Oct, 05:38 UTC
Estadão 2 Oct, 05:26 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 13 outlets in 10 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 13 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Argentina, Brazil. Asia-Pacific 6: Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 2: France, Greece. 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: Greek, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Liberty Times, 1 Oct 2026, 06:08 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 03:57 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 Asia-Pacific, Taiwan. Topic Conflict & security. 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.
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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

2 Oct 2026 75 12.44 13 10 13 10 4.0

3 Oct 2026 307 2.56 13 10 3 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 06:30 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 03:57 UTC

Covered by 13 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

Estadão Brazil 2 Oct, 05:26 UTC
Taiwan recebe os dois primeiros caças F-16V fabricados nos EUA
Clarín Argentina 2 Oct, 04:30 UTC
Taiwán recibe sus dos primeros aviones de combate F-16V fabricados en EEUU

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

Europe 3 outlets

Le Figaro France 2 Oct, 05:55 UTC
Taïwan reçoit ses deux premiers avions de combat F-16V commandés aux États-Unis
ERT Greece 2 Oct, 05:38 UTC
Η Ταϊβάν παρέλαβε τα δυο πρώτα της F-16V από τις ΗΠΑ
Le Monde France 2 Oct, 04:56 UTC
Taïwan, qui veut renforcer sa défense face à la Chine, reçoit ses premiers avions de combat américains F-16V

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
2 Oct 2026	75	12.44	13	10	13	10	4.0
3 Oct 2026	307	2.56	13	10	3	2	4.0