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🗞️ Story file #126

Usha Vance stumbles while disembarking helicopter with infant

Oct 6, 12 AM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 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 6, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: Yahoo News
  2. Oct 6, 12 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 9 people

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 6, 3 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM36leftrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 12 AM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · right · not rated
Oct 5, 6 PMOct 66 AM12 PM6 PMUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 5, 4:00 PM ET: Usha Vance appears to trip while disembarking aircraft…The Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 5, 5:00 PM ET: Usha Vance Rebounds After Slipping on Stairs of Marine Two While Carrying Baby (VIDEO)New York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 5, 5:00 PM ET: Usha Vance stumbles down vice presidential helicopter steps with infant son strapped to her chest: videoThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Oct 5, 6:00 PM ET: CLOSE CALL Heartstopping moment Usha Vance stumbles down Marine Two steps holding babyCrooks and LiarsCrooks and LiarsCrooks and Liars, Oct 5, 8:00 PM ET: Usha Vance Nearly Falls With Newborn In Scary Stumble Off VP HelicopterYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 6, 12:00 AM ET: Usha Vance appears to stumble while deboarding helicopter with infant🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
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Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • The person in question has a physical disability or injury affecting their mobility, likely involving braces or medical support, and exhibits an abnormal gait. Oct 6: told by 9 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Usha Vance Marine Two

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

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Lean ratings: AllSides (CC BY-NC 4.0) · reliability: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Everything else (mood, spin, feelings, framing) is our own reading of the headlines.