🧵 Saga file #40
Fox Guilfoyle scandal
Oct 8, 10 AM ET to Oct 12, 10 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 23outlets carried a part
- 🫏13 · 4 · 5🐘left · center · right
- 4.5 daysrunning so far
- 180 minof TV captions
- 25people 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 8, 10 AM ET · on the front pages 2.3 daysReport says Ambassador asked donor to pay credit card bill
- Oct 12, 3 PM ET · on the front pages 7 hoursFormer fox News executive criticizes network's handling of Kimberly Guilfoyle coverage; network later publishes article about her potential removal from Trump administration
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Report says Ambassador asked donor to pay credit card bill
Oct 8, 10 AM ET · 22 outlets · on the front pages 2.3 days
“‘Honey Please’: U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle Reportedly Begged Trump Donor to Pay $100,000 Credit Card Debt” first: Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Beast
📺 CNN 162 min, MSNOW 15 min · 🧶 retold by 25
2. Former fox News executive criticizes network's handling of Kimberly Guilfoyle coverage; network later publishes article about her potential removal from Trump administration
Oct 12, 3 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 7 hours · 🔴 now
“Ex-Fox News boss blasts network's latest 'product of fear' as scandal rocks Trump admin” first: Raw Story
📺 MSNOW 3 min, Fox News 43 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly asked a Trump donor to secretly pay off a $100,000 American Express bill prior to her Senate confirmation. told by 9 people, on “Report says Ambassador asked donor to pay credit card bill”
- Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's ambassador to Greece, allegedly asked a donor to pay her $100,000 credit card debt in exchange for access to top Trump officials. told by 16 people, on “Report says Ambassador asked donor to pay credit card bill”