🧵 Saga file #61
Abdul El-Sayed Muslim Brotherhood controversy
Oct 12, 9 PM ET to Oct 19, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 3parts so far
- 22outlets carried a part
- 🫏3 · 2 · 17🐘left · center · right
- 6.9 daysrunning so far
- 161 minof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
- 18people 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 12, 9 PM ET · on the front pages 4.6 daysAbdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission
- Oct 18, 6 PM ET · on the front pages 1 dayAbdul El-Sayed confronts voter over Muslim Brotherhood question
- Oct 19, 2 PM ET · on the front pages 4 hoursSenator's sister-in-law on terror watch list
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Abdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission
Oct 12, 9 PM ET · 15 outlets · on the front pages 4.6 days
“Abdul El-Sayed’s Family Has ‘Long Been’ in Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Senate Candidate’s Sister Said in Unearthed Social Media Posts” first: The Washington Free Beacon
📺 CNN 27 min, Fox News 19 min, BBC News 73 s · 📻 1 newscast · 🧶 retold by 12
2. Abdul El-Sayed confronts voter over Muslim Brotherhood question
Oct 18, 6 PM ET · 13 outlets · on the front pages 1 day · 🔴 now
“Abdul El-Sayed: A Muslim Brotherhood Puppet and a Grave National Security Threat” first: The American Spectator
📺 CNN 105 min, Fox News 9 min · 🧶 retold by 6
3. Senator's sister-in-law on terror watch list
Oct 19, 2 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 4 hours · 🔴 now
“Yet Another El-Sayed Terror Bombshell: His Sister-in-Law Was on the Terror Watchlist Under Obama - Report” first: The Western Journal
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- Certain people are habitual and effortless liars who cannot keep their lies straight. told by 12 people, on “Abdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission”
- Donald Trump is falsely accusing Abdul El-Sayed of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. told by 6 people, on “Abdul El-Sayed confronts voter over Muslim Brotherhood question”