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🗞️ Story file #1086

Right-wing activists charged with election-related offenses in Minnesota

Oct 28, 3 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 PM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

23outlets carried it
🫏12 · 1 · 8🐘left · center · right
3 hourson the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
1radio newscast

👣 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, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 28, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 28, 6 PM ETpeak: on 23 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 3 PM to Oct 28, 6 PM ET (peak 23), 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.

💬 Quoted

“Voter Vouching”2
“Voter Fraud”1

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

🗣️ Only one side says

🫏 left
unlawful voting

🐘 right
nothing of its own

phrases three or more outlets on one side used and none on the other

📌 Linked by aggregators

3 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire

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)

CNN (2 wordings): “Right-wing influencers charged after Minnesota polling station stunt” → “James O’Keefe charged after Minnesota polling station stunt”
The New Republic (2 wordings): “Conservatives on “Voter Fraud” Quest Get Charged With Identity Theft” → “Right-Wing Influencers Charged With Voter Fraud”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Right-wing provocateurs James O'Keefe and Cam Higby charged over Minnesota voting stunt” → “Undercover voting stunt leads to criminal charges for 2 right-wing provocateurs”

Every outlet's first headline (23), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Right-Wing Influencer James O’Keefe Charged With Unlawful Voting, Identity Theft Oct 28, 3 PM ET
Raw Story Election stunt backfires as right-wing activist James O'Keefe charged with unlawful voting Oct 28, 12 PM ET
The Daily Beast MAGA Provocateur Charged After Bonkers Voting Stunt Oct 28, 6 PM ET
The New Republic Conservatives on “Voter Fraud” Quest Get Charged With Identity Theft Oct 28, 1 PM ET
ABC News 2 right-wing provocateurs facing election-related charges in Minnesota Oct 28, 2 PM ET
AP Conservative activists O’Keefe, Higby charged with unlawful voting in Minnesota Oct 28, 5 PM ET
CBS News Charges filed against activists who posed as Minnesota voters Oct 28, 2 PM ET
CNN Right-wing influencers charged after Minnesota polling station stunt Oct 28, 3 PM ET
Mediaite James O’Keefe Charged With Unlawful Voting After Allegedly Impersonating Muslims in Polling Place Stunt Oct 28, 2 PM ET
Star Tribune Conservative influencers face identity theft charges over Minnesota primary Oct 28, 12 PM ET
The Washington Post James O’Keefe charged over hidden-camera operation at Minnesota polls Oct 28, 3 PM ET
Yahoo News Right-wing provocateurs James O'Keefe and Cam Higby charged over Minnesota voting stunt Oct 28, 3 PM ET
Straight Arrow News Conservative activists charged after stunt at Minnesota polling place Oct 28, 3 PM ET
Just the News James O'Keefe charged over viral voting video in Minnesota Oct 28, 1 PM ET
Washington Examiner Minnesota prosecutors charge two right-wing influencers for posing as voters Oct 28, 3 PM ET
IJR O'Keefe and Higby Face Felony Charges Over Minnesota Polling Stunt Oct 28, 4 PM ET
New York Post Right-wing activists charged with unlawfully voting in Minnesota while claiming to expose state’s voter laws Oct 28, 6 PM ET
Newsmax Conservatives Charged Over Minn. Poll Videos Oct 28, 3 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit BREAKING: Soros Prosecutor Charges James O’Keefe and Cam Higby with FELONIES For Exposing Minnesota’s Insane ‘Voter Vouching’ System Oct 28, 2 PM ET
The Post Millennial BREAKING: Journalists James O'Keefe, Cam Higby hit with felony charges after going undercover in Muslim garb to expose Minnesota voting 'vouching' loophole Oct 28, 3 PM ET
Townhall James O'Keefe Faces Felony Charges Over Undercover Report at Polling Locations Oct 28, 2 PM ET
Talking Points Memo Election Fraud Stunt Backfires on Right-Wing Influencers, Results in Identity Theft Charges Oct 28, 4 PM ET
The Washington Sun Conservative Activist James O’Keefe Charged Following Minnesota Voting Stunt Oct 28, 5 PM ET

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

📺🤷 No TV captions matched to it.

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

🫏 NPR News Now 1× · best #3

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

James O'KeefeMinnesotaRight-wing influencersMinnesota Department of Attorney GeneralMinnesota Secretary of State

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.