ARGUS/OVERWATCH
NAMES · WHO THE NEWS NAMED · 10-19 TO 11-01

Substack

org

Named in 298 articles by 28 newsrooms, in 238 stories, on 14 of the last 14 days, first on 10-19.

Rank
0.0569
by the company kept · 1 is the top name
Articles
298
315 mentions
Linked to
390
names in 2+ shared articles
This week
1.35×
against last week
In Donald Trump's circle
53%
of that hub's 30 closest names are also linked here
Bridging
0
between groups · 1 is the top bridge

Most exclusively tied top 30 · ties that pass the test on the right, most exclusive first

The names that appear with Substack in a large share of their own coverage: this name's own company. Exclusivity runs from 0, two names that meet no more than chance would have them, to 1, two names that only ever appear together. A name that is in everything, a president, is exclusive to no one, so the big names fall away here and the names that belong to this one stay. Only ties that pass the strength test count, so a pair seen twice is not a tie. Places are context and have no page.

NameKindExclusivityTogether
Patreonorg0.55536
Sacramentogpe0.46714
Buy Palantirperson0.46514
Ashevillegpe0.4513
Eastern Districtloc0.4255
D.Cgpe0.42333
Oracleorg0.4214
District of Columbiagpe0.41512
Gavin Newsomperson0.41114
Rioorg0.41113
Silicon Valleyloc0.40720
Sam Altmanperson0.40317
Middle East Instituteloc0.4033
Tasmaniagpe0.3953
FBIorg0.39147
Micronorg0.39114
NBC Newsorg0.38612
District Courtorg0.37412
Arcticloc0.37111
Department of Justiceorg0.35249
Muslim Brotherhoodorg0.3410
Eastern Europeloc0.333
Columbia Universityorg0.3114
Department of Homeland Securityorg0.30418
Joe Bidenperson0.316
Lulaperson0.29513
Californiagpe0.29351
Minnesotagpe0.2916
Bay Arealoc0.2854
Barack Obamaperson0.28114

Most strongly tied the ties chance explains least

How sure the record is that two names appear together for a reason. Strength is a standard statistical test (log-likelihood): above 10.8, chance would produce the pairing less than once in a thousand times. It grows with the number of articles, so the biggest names come first here; the list on the left is where this name's own company shows.

NameStrengthTogether
Patreon34636
FBI28447
Donald Trump282126
Department of Justice25749
United States230132
D.C22833
California20951
Silicon Valley13920
Sacramento12014
Buy Palantir12014
Sam Altman11917
Oracle10514
Gavin Newsom10214
Micron9614
Rio9613

Articles per day

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The hubs' circles share of each hub's 30 closest names that are also linked to this one

The eight most-named figures each have an inner circle: the thirty names most tied to them. This is how much of each circle this name is also tied to. A count of shared company in the coverage, nothing more.

Shared with Donald Trump: Abdul El-Sayed, Barack Obama, Congress, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, District Court, El-Sayed, GOP, Gavin Newsom, Ilhan Omar, Jair Bolsonaro, Jeffrey Epstein, Joe Biden, Jon Husted, Katie Zacharia, Ken Paxton, LinkedIn, MAGA, Muslim Brotherhood.

The year 471 articles on 40 days, 2026-08-31 to 2026-10-31 · weekly bars · 14 months on record

Left is a year ago, right is this week. Older days come from headlines only, so their counts run lower than live days.

Named together, month by month · by surprise, among that month's articles · names with a page

Stories that name Substack newest edition first · 40 shown

Names are found by a language model trained to spot them, joined to one spelling per person, and counted per article. The relations are the model's reading of the sources. Everything else is a count of who was written about together; it says nothing about why.