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Violent clashes between police AND protesters in France

Oct 31, 4 PM ET to Nov 1, 6 AM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏2 · 3 · 4🐘left · center · right
15 hourson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
12 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
20 of 21parts of a saga

📰 read it at: The Guardian CBS News BBC Reuters Scripps News The Sun Breitbart New York Post The Daily Wire

👣 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 31, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
Oct 31, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 31, 6 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 31, 9 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 4 PM to Nov 1, 6 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “French-Style Riots Erupt in Germany as Far-Leftists Clash with Police in Frankfurt and Hamburg” → “French-Style Riots Erupt in Germany as Far-Leftists Clash with Police”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Isolated clashes in France, as tensions erupt after peaceful marches” → “Isolated clashes in France after peaceful marches, as police brace for Halloween night violence”
The Sun (3 wordings): “FIERY CLASHES Hundreds arrested after Molotov cocktail attacks leave French cops on fire” → “STREETS OF RAGE Protesters firebomb French cops and loot stores with riots spreading to Germany and Albania as unrest sweeps Europe”

📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian🕒 Oct 31, 3 PM ET Police clash with masked rioters after largely peaceful protests across France
CBS News🕒 Oct 31, 1 PM ET French police clash with some protesters again as demonstrations continue
BBC🕒 Oct 31, 4 PM ET Clashes erupt between police and protesters in Paris
Reuters🕒 Oct 31, 4 PM ET Isolated clashes in France, as tensions erupt after peaceful marches
Scripps News🕒 Oct 31, 4 PM ET French protesters defy heavy police presence in new demonstrations
The Sun🕒 Oct 31, 9 PM ET FIERY CLASHES Hundreds arrested after Molotov cocktail attacks leave French cops on fire
Breitbart🕒 Oct 31, 6 PM ET French-Style Riots Erupt in Germany as Far-Leftists Clash with Police in Frankfurt and Hamburg
New York Post🕒 Oct 31, 3 PM ET Violent clashes erupted across France Saturday evening, with rioters throwing what appeared to be Molotov cocktails at Paris police which injured several officers.
The Daily Wire🕒 Oct 31, 6 PM ET Rioters Hit Police With Molotov Cocktails, Set France Ablaze

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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

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

🫏 NPR News Now 1× · best #5

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

🕵️ 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

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what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 French protests and unrest

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Oct 5, 7 AM ET
Trump blames France protests on migration and Islam
Oct 6, 2 PM ET
French student protests continue amid escalating tensions and government response
Oct 4, 1 PM ET
Greta Thunberg joins French student protests
Oct 13, 6 PM ET
Protesters rally across France with clashes and looting
Oct 17, 9 PM ET
French president vows to hold accountable those involved in protests
Oct 19, 7 AM ET
Protesters block access to Louvre museum in Paris
Oct 19, 3 PM ET
Far-left activist arrested after historic town hall fire in limoges
Oct 19, 10 AM ET
Trump references French riots in midterm campaign
Oct 18, 1 PM ET
France experiences riots and unrest following fuel price protests
Oct 17, 11 AM ET
Macron criticizes foreign leaders for 'stupid' comments on French riots
Oct 21, 10 AM ET
Louvre and other museums close Saturday due to protest concerns
Oct 23, 11 PM ET
France bans non-union protests amid unrest
Oct 22, 10 AM ET
French protests see Hundreds arrested, some violence reported
Oct 24, 10 PM ET
French authorities report over 1,300 arrests during ongoing protests
Oct 26, 11 AM ET
Violence erupts in Paris as Protests continue across France
Oct 26, 11 AM ET
France and Europe see continued protests with arrests and clashes
Oct 19, 9 AM ET
NFL game played in Paris amid protests
Oct 20, 10 AM ET
France enters third weekend of youth-led protests as demonstrations spread across Europe
Oct 31, 1 PM ET
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Oct 31, 4 PM ET
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Oct 31, 6 PM ET