Americas / Venezuela · Politics

US charges Maduro and wife with torture conspiracy

Rank: 5
Running: 30h
Updated: 37m ago
Momentum: -14%
Outlets: 136
Regions: 5
Countries: 65
Languages: 27

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Sol de México, 7 Oct, 19:24 UTC.
Second country: Brazil, with CNN Brasil.
Second region: Europe, with Kommersant.
Fastest hour: +24 outlets from 8 Oct, 15:52 UTC.
Now: 136 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 65 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

29%16%36%13%

Africa 7 outlets · 5 countries · 5%
Americas 40 outlets · 14 countries · 29%
Asia-Pacific 21 outlets · 15 countries · 16%
Europe 49 outlets · 22 countries · 36%
Middle East 18 outlets · 8 countries · 13%
International 1 outlet · 1%

First movers

El Sol de México 7 Oct, 19:24 UTC
CNN Brasil +51m
G1 +58m
Kommersant +1h 1m
SVT +1h 2m

Latest arrivals

Republica 9 Oct, 02:12 UTC
The Japan Times 9 Oct, 01:07 UTC
France 24 8 Oct, 23:56 UTC
China News Service 8 Oct, 22:46 UTC
Afghanistan International 8 Oct, 22:33 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 136 outlets in 65 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 136 outlets, 8 state-owned, 14 public-service, 114 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia. Americas 14: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 15: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 22: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 8: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article El Sol de México, 7 Oct 2026, 19:24 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 02:12 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, Venezuela. 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: 13.77, 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

7 Oct 2026 9 25.81 29 22 29 22 4.6

8 Oct 2026 10 28.32 132 63 122 62 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 20:30 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 02:12 UTC

Covered by 136 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
7 Oct 2026	9	25.81	29	22	29	22	4.6
8 Oct 2026	10	28.32	132	63	122	62	4.6

Covered by 136 outlets

Africa 7 outlets

Americas 40 outlets

Asia-Pacific 21 outlets

Europe 49 outlets

Middle East 18 outlets

International 1 outlet