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Americas / United States · Politics

US public schools ban record 12,000 books

Rank
Running
31h
Updated
11h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
4
Regions
1
Countries
2
Languages
1

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Merged into US school book bans hit record high of nearly 12000

Infobae Argentina · Spanish 5 Oct, 22:15 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Spanish, 4 reports

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 32 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Infobae, 5 Oct, 22:15 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 22:15 UTC.
  3. Second country: Colombia, with El Espectador.
  4. Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

32 of 32 hours

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The regions

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  • Americas 4 outlets · 2 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Infobae 5 Oct, 22:15 UTC
  2. Clarín +25m
  3. El Espectador +18h 55m
  4. La Nación (AR) +20h 43m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 2 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Argentina, Colombia. 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
Spanish.
Timeline
Earliest article Infobae, 5 Oct 2026, 22:15 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 22:50 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 18:58 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
0.25, 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.
Chain
Merged into US school book bans hit record high of nearly 12000. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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Started 5 Oct, 22:50 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 18:58 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Americas 4 outlets

  • La Nación (AR) Argentina 6 Oct, 18:58 UTC
    Aumentaron los casos de censura de libros en escuelas de Estados Unidos y Stephen King vuelve a encabezar la lista
  • El Espectador Colombia 6 Oct, 17:10 UTC
    EE.UU. registra un récord de libros vetados en escuelas: casi 12.000 en el último periodo
  • Clarín Argentina 5 Oct, 22:40 UTC
    Las escuelas públicas de EE.UU. vetaron 12.000 libros en el último periodo, un récord
  • Infobae Argentina 5 Oct, 22:15 UTC
    Las escuelas públicas de EEUU vetaron 12.000 libros en el último curso, un récord
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