ICE disputes 60 Minutes' deportation story with new details

🗞️ Story file #1007

ICE disputes 60 Minutes' deportation story with new details

Oct 27, 8 AM ET to Oct 28, 12 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏0 · 0 · 8🐘left · center · right
1.2 dayson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
88 sof TV captions
7people retold it online

📰 read it at: New York Post PJ Media The Blaze The Daily Wire The Federalist The Gateway Pundit The Western Journal Townhall

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 27, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 27, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
Oct 27, 11 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 7 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 8 AM to Oct 28, 12 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“60 Minutes”4
“Fake And Gay”2
“sob story”1
“Fake and Gay”3
“Texas Father”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Real Clear Politics

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “’60 Minutes’ Featured Deported Illegal’s Sob Story. His Asylum Application Adds A Twist.” → “What Did ’60 Minutes’ Leave Out Of Deportation Sob Story? Turns Out, A Lot.”
The Federalist (2 wordings): “‘Fake And Gay’: ICE Calls Out CBS News For Leaving Out Deported Alien’s Apparent Immigration Fraud” → “1 Trending: ‘Fake And Gay’: ICE Calls Out CBS News For Leaving Out Deported Alien’s Apparent Immigration Fraud”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Here's the Truth Behind '60 Minutes' Report on 'Texas Father' Deported by ICE” → “ICE Calls Out 'Fake and Gay' CBS News Over Deportation Segment on 60 Minutes”

📰 Every outlet's headline 8left to right by AllSides rating

New York Post🕒 Oct 27, 11 PM ET ‘60 Minutes’ knew married dad said he was gay on immigration docs to avoid deportation — but still ran story: DHS
PJ Media🕒 Oct 26, 12 PM ET '60 Minutes' Features Wife and Kids of Illegal Alien Who Said He’s ‘Gay’ to Avoid Deportation
The Blaze🕒 Oct 26, 11 AM ET ICE mocks deportation 'sob story' on '60 Minutes' — and dismantles its narrative with one inconvenient detail
The Daily Wire🕒 Oct 26, 7 PM ET ’60 Minutes’ Featured Deported Illegal’s Sob Story. His Asylum Application Adds A Twist.
The Federalist🕒 Oct 26, 6 PM ET ‘Fake And Gay’: ICE Calls Out CBS News For Leaving Out Deported Alien’s Apparent Immigration Fraud
The Gateway Pundit🕒 Oct 26, 11 AM ET FAKE NEWS BUSTED: CBS’s Sob Story on Deportation of African Illegal Alien Gets Blown to Smithereens as DHS Catches Outlet in This HUGE Lie (VIDEO)
The Western Journal🕒 Oct 26, 5 PM ET '60 Minutes' Attempted to Run Cover for a Deported Illegal Alien - The Sob Story Crumbled in a Matter of Hours
Townhall🕒 Oct 26, 2 PM ET Here's the Truth Behind '60 Minutes' Report on 'Texas Father' Deported by ICE

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

leans left

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

🫏 CNN 88 s

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Immigration enforcement gone too far 🧶 online
“Immigration authorities are seeking to deport a mentally ill man who is likely a U.S. citizen.”

🧶 Retold online

Immigration authorities are seeking to deport a mentally ill man who is likely a U.S. citizen. Oct 28: told by 7 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ Names in it

CBS NewsICEDHS60 MinutesAfrican country (specific not named)

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.