🧵 Saga file #28
Russian plague cover-up
Oct 4, 6 PM ET to Oct 9, 5 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 63outlets carried a part
- 🫏28 · 13 · 19🐘left · center · right
- 5 daysrunning so far
- 189 minof TV captions
- 22radio newscasts
- 14people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 4, 6 PM ET · on the front pages 5 daysRussian lab worker dies in suspected plague incident
- Oct 8, 7 PM ET · on the front pages 11 hoursU.S. presses Russia over suspected plague case
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1. Russian lab worker dies in suspected plague incident
Oct 4, 6 PM ET · 62 outlets · on the front pages 5 days · 🔴 now
“Suspected Plague Death at Russian Lab Sparks ‘Anti-Epidemic’ Lockdown” first: Newsweek
📺 CNN 128 min, Fox News 34 min, BBC News 27 min, MSNOW 30 s · 📻 22 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 14
2. U.S. presses Russia over suspected plague case
Oct 8, 7 PM ET · 20 outlets · on the front pages 11 hours
“Trump says U.S. is “looking strongly” at alleged Russian plague case” first: Salon
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- A lab worker at a Russian plague research institute has died, raising concerns about pneumonic plague and prompting calls for transparency. told by 14 people, on “Russian lab worker dies in suspected plague incident”