State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country
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- Velocity & Diffusion: Coverage escalated across 5 distinct news outlets with 5 published articles, achieving a live velocity of 3.
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"State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country" is generating significant coverage in the World category, with 4 articles from 4 distinct sources tracked by Newsylist so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Channel 3000, CNN, NBC News and The Washington Post. Newsylist measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Synthesized under Newsylist open intelligence methodology from multi-source international newsroom telemetry. Updated 44d ago.
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State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country The Washington Post · 45d ago broke it first
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