Entity

Hegseth

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 18 coverage verticals, including Intelligence, Defense Procurement and Middle East.

As of 29 Oct 2026Last evidence 28 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Hegseth fires Pentagon’s top strategist accused of leaks amid Iran war

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Hegseth proposes 'ambitious' US-ASEAN defence framework at Philippine summit

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Pete Hegseth’s Campaign to Remake the U.S. Military

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 3 events and claims involving Hegseth

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 60 mentions on 29 Oct 2026, against 44 on 8 Oct 2026 (+36%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 22 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 17 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 28 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

780 documents · 148 publishers · 6% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 28 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.063: about 94% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Hegseth

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

TrumpPentagonIranUnited StatesWhite HouseIsraelNavy
  • Pete Hegseth · 693 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 527 shared documents
  • Pentagon · 481 shared documents
  • Defense Secretary Pete · 384 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iran · 382 shared documents
  • United States · 272 shared documents
  • White House · 216 shared documents
  • United States Congress · 212 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Israel · 181 shared documents
  • Navy · 170 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 60 mentions on 29 Oct 2026 with 44 on 8 Oct 2026 (+36%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +650% from 14 Sept 2026 to 29 Oct 2026, between 6 and 64 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Hegseth, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

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For developers

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Events involving Hegseth

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Hegseth fires Pentagon’s top strategist accused of leaks amid Iran war

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Hegseth proposes 'ambitious' US-ASEAN defence framework at Philippine summit

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Pete Hegseth’s Campaign to Remake the U.S. Military

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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Hegseth

Entity.

Evidence
780 documents · 148 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 9 May 2026, last seen 28 Oct 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
29 Oct 2026
13 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (3)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Hegseth, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

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Markets materially about Hegseth

Markets whose question is about Hegseth or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Hegseth and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

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Recorded history

  • 22 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 21 Oct 2026

  • 22 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 21 Oct 2026

  • 21 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 2 Sept 2026

  • 21 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 2 Sept 2026

4 changes recorded since 17 Oct 2026, newest first.

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