Americas / United States · Politics

US Homeland Security funded pro-Trump political advertisements

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 4d ago
Final
Outlets: 8
Regions: 4
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

ABC News United States · English 29 Sept, 17:46 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Melayu (1)

Read at ABC News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: ABC News, 29 Sept, 17:46 UTC.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 29 Sept, 17:46 UTC.
Second country: Canada, with CTV News.
Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

50%13%25%12%

Americas 4 outlets · 2 countries · 50%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 25%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

ABC News 29 Sept, 17:46 UTC
NBC News +57m
CTV News +1h 33m
The Independent +2h 57m
Arab News +3h 36m

Last to join

CBS News 1 Oct, 16:19 UTC
The Guardian 1 Oct, 11:00 UTC
Utusan Malaysia 30 Sept, 06:00 UTC
Arab News 29 Sept, 21:23 UTC
The Independent 29 Sept, 20:44 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 8 outlets in 5 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 1: United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. 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, Malay.
Timeline: Earliest article ABC News, 29 Sept 2026, 17:46 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 17:50 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 17:23 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 Americas, United States. 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: 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.
Chain: Continued by Trump defends spending millions on taxpayer-funded promotional ads: 'For the country'; 'God Made Trump' ad among 13 taxpayer-funded videos promoting US president. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

29 Sept 2026 275 4.58 5 4 5 4 3.3 → 4.0

1 Oct 2026 274 4.40 8 5 3 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 17:50 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 17:23 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
29 Sept 2026	275	4.58	5	4	5	4	3.3 → 4.0
1 Oct 2026	274	4.40	8	5	3	2	4.0

Covered by 8 outlets

Americas 4 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 2 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet