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US couple arrested for alleged child abuse in surrogacy case

Rank
Running
24h
Updated
7h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
10
Regions
1
Countries
6
Languages
4

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Die Zeit Germany · German 7 Oct, 01:08 UTC

The first outlet on the story

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

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 25 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Die Zeit, 7 Oct, 01:08 UTC.
  2. Second country: Austria, with Der Standard.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 04:02 UTC.
  4. Now: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

26 of 26 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

  • Europe 10 outlets · 6 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Die Zeit 7 Oct, 01:08 UTC
  2. Der Standard +2h 54m
  3. ORF +3h 20m
  4. Kurier +4h 45m
  5. Frankfurter Allgemeine +11h 18m

Latest arrivals

  1. Index 7 Oct, 19:02 UTC
  2. El País 7 Oct, 18:56 UTC
  3. Blick 7 Oct, 17:31 UTC
  4. NOS 7 Oct, 16:40 UTC
  5. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 7 Oct, 13:30 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 6 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 10 outlets, 2 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 6: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland. 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
German, Spanish, Hungarian, Dutch.
Timeline
Earliest article Die Zeit, 7 Oct 2026, 01:08 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 01:20 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 19:02 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 Conflict & security. Hard news Judged not hard news, unsure. Left off 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
1.38, 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 176 4.65 10 6 10 6 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 01:20 UTC · Updated 19:02 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Europe 10 outlets

  • Index Hungary 7 Oct, 19:02 UTC
    „Horrorházat” buktattak le Los Angelesben, példátlan gyermekbántalmazás zajlott egy luxusvillában
  • El País Spain 7 Oct, 18:56 UTC
    La lujosa mansión de Los Ángeles que se convirtió en el “horror” de 21 niños
  • Blick Switzerland 7 Oct, 17:31 UTC
    Horror in Kalifornien – Ehepaar misshandelt 14 Kinder
  • NOS Netherlands 7 Oct, 16:40 UTC
    Echtpaar in VS aangeklaagd voor mishandeling in 'horrorhuis' vol draagmoederkinderen
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung Switzerland 7 Oct, 13:30 UTC
    Sie liessen ihre Kinder von Leihmüttern austragen: Kalifornisches Paar wird wegen 14-fachen Kindesmissbrauchs angeklagt
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 7 Oct, 12:26 UTC
    „Ein Haus des Schreckens“: Paar nach mutmaßlicher Misshandlung von 15 Kindern festgenommen
  • Kurier Austria 7 Oct, 05:52 UTC
    USA: Ehepaar hortete und misshandelte 14 Leihmutter-Babys
  • ORF Austria 7 Oct, 04:27 UTC
    US-Paar soll Leihmutter-Kinder misshandelt haben: Festnahme
  • Der Standard Austria 7 Oct, 04:02 UTC
    Leihmutter-Skandal und Misshandlungen: US-Paar festgenommen
  • Die Zeit Germany 7 Oct, 01:08 UTC
    «Haus des Grauens»: Leihmutter-Skandal und Misshandlungen: US-Paar festgenommen
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