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DEVELOPING · 23 SEP → 26 SEP 2026 · 4 EDITIONS · 6 OUTLETS
McDonald’s outlines $8.5 billion plan for restaurant upgrades and AI tools
How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.
OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN
HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES
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2026-09-24
McDonald’s unveils $8.5 billion plan for restaurant upgrades
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25 Sep, 00:38 UTC
McDonald’s outlines $8.5 billion plan for restaurant upgrades and AI tools
WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER
From the first reports to the latest
- Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.
Entered the story later
- Nothing new took hold after the first third.
Figures reported with different numbers
- its systemwide: 1.9% (1 from 23 Sep 13:05) → 2.2% (1 from 23 Sep 13:05) → 2.5% (1 from 23 Sep 13:05)
Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.