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Researchers say targeted ads delivered zero-click spyware to Al Jazeera devices

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

0 11 22 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 15 Oct 18:25 UTC · Researchers say targeted ads delivered zero-click spyware to Al Jazeera devices

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 1 HEADLINE

  1. 15 Oct, 18:25 UTC

    Researchers say targeted ads delivered zero-click spyware to Al Jazeera devices

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Al Jazeera · 8 outlets
  • Citizen Lab · 7 outlets
  • Amnesty International · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • mobile apps: 70,000 (2 from 15 Oct 10:00) → 150,000 (1 from 15 Oct 10:43) → 10,000 (1 from 15 Oct 10:43)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.