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Wikipedia readers turned to To Catch a Predator at 54x the usual rate

To Catch a Predator drew 65,171 views on 2026-08-08, 54x more than the usual 1,198 a day over the previous 60 days.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews for To Catch a Predator
DateViews
2026-08-0865,171
2026-08-07120,674
2026-08-0694,860
2026-08-055,235
2026-08-041,483
2026-08-032,033
2026-08-021,142
2026-08-011,158
2026-07-311,346
2026-07-301,359
2026-07-291,487
2026-07-281,541
2026-07-271,649
2026-07-261,959
2026-07-251,868
2026-07-243,312
2026-07-235,307
2026-07-221,230
2026-07-211,237
2026-07-201,256
2026-07-191,181
2026-07-181,145
2026-07-171,353
2026-07-161,411
2026-07-151,901
2026-07-141,094
2026-07-131,380
2026-07-12858
2026-07-11881
2026-07-10962
2026-07-09991
2026-07-08878
2026-07-07864
2026-07-06801
2026-07-05780
2026-07-04679
2026-07-03742
2026-07-02729
2026-07-01721
2026-06-30774
2026-06-29812
2026-06-28879
2026-06-27916
2026-06-26977
2026-06-25896
Views that day
65,171
Versus normal
54x
Typical day
1,198

What this article is

To Catch a Predator is an American reality television series in the television news magazine program Dateline NBC. The program features confrontations by host Chris Hansen, partly filmed with a hidden camera, with adult men arriving at a sting house to have sex with a minor and typically being arrested as a result, with the minors being adults impersonating underage persons in online chats.

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Rose at the same time

2 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.

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