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RFK Jr. faces backlash over anti-Arab remarks

Oct 28, 12 PM ET to Oct 28, 7 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

12outlets carried it
🫏6 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
7 hourson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak
7 sof TV captions
2 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, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: Crooks and Liars
Oct 28, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 28, 3 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 12 PM to Oct 28, 7 PM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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.

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word

NBC News

💬 Quoted

“Arabs in the world”1
“blatant bigotry”1
“Death Cult”1
“don't produce science or literature”1
“Hysterical”1
“nakedly racist”1
“wildly racist tirade”1

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

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost RFK Jr. Got Super-Duper Racist In Michigan Last Night Oct 27, 4 PM ET
Raw Story RFK Jr.'s 'nakedly racist' remarks immediately backfire at campaign stop: 'Hysterical' Oct 27, 3 PM ET
The Guardian RFK Jr assailed over ‘wildly racist tirade’ about Arabs at Michigan campaign stop Oct 28, 10 AM ET
NBC News RFK Jr. faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks Oct 28, 2 AM ET
The Independent RFK Jr blastest for ‘blatant bigotry’ after claiming Arabs ‘don’t produce science or literature’ Oct 27, 1 PM ET
The Washington Post RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don’t produce prizeworthy science, literature Oct 27, 6 PM ET
Reuters US health chief RFK Jr faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks Oct 27, 11 PM ET
The Hill RFK Jr. rebuked for derogatory claim about ‘Arabs in the world’ Oct 28, 1 PM ET
The Epoch Times RFK Jr. Faces Backlash Over Comments About Arabs Oct 28, 3 PM ET
The Blaze RFK Jr. delivers scathing message about the Muslim Brotherhood in Michigan speech Oct 27, 6 PM ET
The Daily Wire RFK Jr. Unloads On Muslim Brotherhood ‘Death Cult’ That Creates Stagnant Societies Oct 27, 12 PM ET
Crooks and Liars RFK Jr. Spits His Islamophobia All Over Michigan Voters Oct 28, 12 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

right

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

🐘 Fox News 7 s

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.

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🐘 Erick Erickson 1

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

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

Muslim BrotherhoodMichigan

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