The charges against Michel Houellebecq are absurd and dangerous
- Newsrooms
- 2
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 2 to 3 newsrooms by 8:17pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowWhy it’s moving
- Crossed overThe right picked it up 5 hr after the left. 1 left and 1 right newsrooms on it now.
1The Critic didn’t include a summary with this one. The full story is one tap away.
Background: Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a monograph on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel Whatever in 1994 and his second, Atomised, in 1998, to international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.3
The story so far
2 newsrooms- Reports
- 2
- Newsrooms and sources
- 2
- Last 3 hours
- 1
First with it: The Atlantic, 4 hr 48 min before anyone else.
Reported by 2 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 2 to 3 newsrooms by 8:17pm AEDT (2 most likely), and 2 to 3 by Sat, 14 Nov, 2:17pm AEDT. 2 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 2 | 2 |
| In 1 hours (3:17pm AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 3 hours (5:17pm AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 6 hours (8:17pm AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
| In 12 hours (2:17am AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
| In 24 hours (2:17pm AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
Based on how similar stories played out last week. Right 93% of the time. How this works
Every report, in order
2 reports from 2 newsrooms, first to latest. Each links to the original.


