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🗞️ Story file #109

Brazil police raid suspected Trump election interference operation

Oct 5, 3 PM ET to Oct 6, 8 AM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 5, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Times
  2. Oct 5, 3 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
  3. Oct 6, 2 AM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 3 PM to Oct 6, 8 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 4, 6 PMOct 56 AM12 PM6 PMOct 66 AMTimeTimeTime, Oct 2, 5:03 PM ET: Trump Is Being Accused of Interfering in Brazil's Election. Here's WhyThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 4, 9:00 AM ET: Trump wants control of South America. If Bolsonaro Jr wins in Brazil, that could become a realityThe Guardian, Oct 4, 1:00 PM ET: All eyes on Brazil as Trump eyes control of the AmericasNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 4, 12:00 PM ET: Brazil Could Be 9th Latin American Win for TrumpNewsmax, Oct 4, 4:00 PM ET: Gizzi: Brazil Could Be 9th Latin American Win for TrumpRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 5, 10:00 AM ET: Suspected Trump election interference sparks police raids in Brazil: reportThe New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New Republic, Oct 5, 10:00 AM ET: Trump Is Poised for a Big Win—in BrazilNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 5, 2:00 PM ET: Brazil’s Bolsonaro Comeback Is a Blueprint for TrumpNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: Brazil Election Could Give Bolsonaro a Key Role in Trump’s Latin America MapNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 5, 10:00 PM ET: Brazil’s right turn reflects the global appeal of Trump’s American prideChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 6, 7:00 AM ET: Daniel DePetris: Brazil’s elections appear to be another win for Donald Trump📺 TVMSNOW, 2:44 AM ET: PREPARING FOR THREATS TO THE ELECTIONMSNOW, 2:46 AM ET: PREPARING FOR THREATS TO THE ELECTION
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.
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Newsmax (2 wordings): “Brazil Could Be 9th Latin American Win for Trump” → “Gizzi: Brazil Could Be 9th Latin American Win for Trump”
  • The Guardian (2 wordings): “Trump wants control of South America. If Bolsonaro Jr wins in Brazil, that could become a reality” → “All eyes on Brazil as Trump eyes control of the Americas”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

MSNOW61 s
  • PREPARING FOR THREATS TO THE ELECTION MSNOW, 61 s

🧶 Retelling

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: Brazil Donald Trump Jair Bolsonaro Gizzi Latin America Brazilian police

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Bolsonaro-Lula presidential runoff

  1. Brazil holds presidential election with Lula and Bolsonaro in runoff

    Oct 3, 12 PM ET

  2. Brazil police raid suspected Trump election interference operation (this story)

    Oct 5, 3 PM ET

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