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🗞️ Story file #1053

RFK Jr faces backlash for anti-Arab remarks

Oct 28, 2 AM ET to Oct 28, 12 PM ET

4outlets carried it
🫏4 · 0 · 0🐘left · center · right
10 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
50 minof TV captions
1 of 2parts of a saga

👣 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 28, 2 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
Oct 28, 2 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 28, 4 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Post

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 2 AM to Oct 28, 12 PM ET (peak 4), by the outlets' lean: left

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. 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

“blatant bigotry”1
“don't produce science or literature”1
“Hatred”1
“They Don't Produce Literature,”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Political Wire

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

Every outlet's first headline (4), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost RFK Jr. Just Insulted 500 Million Arabs, And Boy, The Fact-Check Is Brutal Oct 27, 6 PM ET
The New Republic RFK Jr. Faces Backlash After Trashing 500 Million Arabs in the World Oct 27, 12 PM ET
Mediaite RFK Jr. Goes on Stunning Rant Against Arabs: ‘They Don’t Produce Literature,’ Only ‘Hatred’ and ‘War’ Oct 26, 11 PM ET
The Washington Post RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don’t produce prizeworthy science, literature - The Washington Post Oct 28, 4 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

left
leans left

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

hourly newscasts that carried it, by programme; 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

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Arab countriesU.S. Department of Health and Human Serv

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 RFK Jr. racial remarks controversy

RFK Jr faces backlash for anti-Arab remarks (this story)
Oct 28, 2 AM ET
RFK Jr. faces backlash over anti-Arab remarks
Oct 28, 12 PM ET