🧵 Saga file #86
Meghan Markle father abuse probe
Oct 23, 7 AM ET to Oct 25, 4 AM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 22outlets carried a part
- 🫏11 · 4 · 7🐘left · center · right
- 1.9 daysrunning so far
- 61 minof TV captions
- 22people 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 23, 7 AM ET · on the front pages 1.9 daysPhilippines investigates Thomas Markle over child sex abuse images
- Oct 24, 2 PM ET · on the front pages 14 hoursUK police confirm receipt of letter with claims against Meghan's father
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1. Philippines investigates Thomas Markle over child sex abuse images
Oct 23, 7 AM ET · 21 outlets · on the front pages 1.9 days · 🔴 now
“MEG DAD CHILD SEX PROBE Meghan's dad Thomas Markle probed over vast stash of child sex images after being reported to cops by his own son” first: The Sun
📺 BBC News 39 min, CNN 21 s · 🧶 retold by 22
2. UK police confirm receipt of letter with claims against Meghan's father
Oct 24, 2 PM ET · 7 outlets · on the front pages 14 hours · 🔴 now
“Met Police says letter with claims about Meghan's father not shared with other law enforcement” first: BBC, The Independent
📺 BBC News 21 min
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- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is deeply distressed by allegations that child sexual abuse images were found at her father Thomas Markle's former home. told by 22 people, on “Philippines investigates Thomas Markle over child sex abuse images”