The story spread from Bloomberg at 12:01 PM as first to report, then amplified by x.com and 9to5mac, followed by feeds.macrumors, machash, and appleworld.today. Yandori tracked 45 sources with 10 citations showing how the news propagated: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-21-9996613-apple-...
You can track how this story spread from CNN at 3:32 PM as first to report, then whistleblower.org, peters.senate.gov, and eventually scienceblog.com and democracydocket.com. Yandori shows 54 sources picked it up with 48 citations: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-20-9734134-trump-...
Interesting to see how this news spread across 45+ media outlets. Yandori tracked the news flow from AP News at 9:31 AM as first to report, then blog.google as the amplifier around 8:07 AM, followed by mashable and other tech sites. You can see the full timeline at https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-22-10232467-say-g...
I have a bunch of heuristics - but broadly speaking a new domain + a new good looking site. ie: some legit pages, legit socials, and some real owner/purpose behind it.