🗞️ Story file #1021
Ebola outbreak in Congo surpasses 10,000 cases
Oct 27, 2 PM ET to Oct 28, 8 PM ET
- 10outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
- 1.3 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 7 minof TV captions
- 11people retold it online
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
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- Oct 27, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 27, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Epoch Times
- Oct 27, 8 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
- Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 11 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 Linked by aggregators
1 Google News
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Ebola outbreak surpasses 10,000 cases in Congo as deaths near 5,000” → “Ebola outbreak surpasses 10,000 cases in Congo”
📰 Every outlet's headline 10left to right by AllSides rating
- HuffPost🕒 Oct 27, 7 PM ET
Ebola Outbreak In Congo Tops 10,000 Cases
- AP🕒 Oct 27, 4 PM ET
Photos show Congo’s fight against Ebola as cases surpass 10,000
- NBC News🕒 Oct 27, 10 AM ET
Congo’s Ebola outbreak tops 10,000 cases as authorities race to slow spread
- Bloomberg🕒 Oct 27, 9 AM ET
Congo Ebola Cases Top 10,000 as Violence Hits Health Workers
- Reuters🕒 Oct 27, 7 AM ET
Congo's Ebola cases surpass 10,000 as fears grow of wider African spread
- The Epoch Times🕒 Oct 27, 2 PM ET
Congo’s Ebola Cases Exceed 10,000
- The Washington Times🕒 Oct 27, 12 PM ET
Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo surpass 10,000 as deaths mount
- Washington Examiner🕒 Oct 27, 8 PM ET
Ebola outbreak surpasses 10,000 cases in Congo as deaths near 5,000
- Breitbart🕒 Oct 28, 3 PM ET
Ebola Workers in Congo Attacked by Machete Mob as Cases Pass 10,000
- Newsmax🕒 Oct 27, 6 AM ET
Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Tops 10,000 Cases as Authorities Race to Slow the Spread in African Countries
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- leans left
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📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 On the radio
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.
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have surpassed 10,000. Oct 28: told by 11 people
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 64 likes, 33 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 5 likes, 6 reposts
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
Democratic Republic of the CongoWorld Health OrganizationEbola virusDR CongoAfrica
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Ebola outbreak in Congo
Ebola outbreak in Congo surpasses 10,000 cases (this story)
Oct 27, 2 PM ET
Ebola outbreak in Congo kills more than 5,000
Oct 31, 11 AM ET