🗞️ Story file #1315
Oklahoma man charged with mailing powder-filled letters to officials ahead of elections
Nov 3, 1 PM ET to Nov 3, 3 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 12outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 2 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 2 hourson the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
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- Nov 3, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
- Nov 3, 3 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 6 times in 10 (150 stories)
📡 Wire copy
3 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word
New York Post, News Nation, The Washington Sun
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Just the News (2 wordings): “Oklahoma man arrested on suspicion of sending letters containing white power to public officials” → “Oklahoma man arrested on suspicion of sending letters containing white powder to public officials”
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Oklahoma man charged with mailing letters containing powder to officials ahead of midterms” → “Oklahoma man charged with mailing letters containing powder to officials ahead of 2024 election”
- The Washington Sun (2 wordings): “Man Charged With Mailing Letters Containing Powder to Officials Ahead of the Election” → “Man Charged With Mailing Letters Containing Powder to Officials”
📰 Every outlet's headline 12left to right by AllSides rating
- Raw Story🕒 Nov 3, 2 PM ET
Election denier charged with mailing suspicious powder to hundreds of officials
- The Guardian🕒 Nov 3, 1 PM ET
US man charged with mailing hundreds of letters containing powder to officials before midterms
- AP🕒 Nov 3, 1 PM ET
Man charged with mailing hundreds of letters containing powder to officials ahead of the election
- CBS News🕒 Nov 3, 2 PM ET
Oklahoma man charged with mailing hundreds of white-powder letters
- Mediaite🕒 Nov 3, 2 PM ET
Oklahoma Man Arrested for Sending Nearly 700 Powder-Filled Letters to Pols Ahead of 2024 and 2026 Elections
- News Nation🕒 Nov 3, 1 PM ET
Man charged with mailing letters containing powder ahead of the election
- Scripps News🕒 Nov 3, 2 PM ET
Man charged with sending white powder hoax letters ahead of elections
- Just the News🕒 Nov 3, 1 PM ET
Oklahoma man arrested on suspicion of sending letters containing white power to public officials
- Fox News🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET
FBI nabs suspect accused of sending hundreds of white powder letters to public officials: source
- IJR🕒 Nov 3, 3 PM ET
Oklahoma Man Charged in Election Powder-Mailings
- New York Post🕒 Nov 3, 1 PM ET
Oklahoma man charged with mailing letters containing powder to officials ahead of midterms
- The Washington Sun🕒 Nov 3, 1 PM ET
Man Charged With Mailing Letters Containing Powder to Officials Ahead of the Election
📡 Broadcast
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📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.
🧶 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.
OklahomaMan (unidentified)
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
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🧵 Powder sent to officials
Illinois man charged with mailing white powder to Congress members
Oct 26, 7 PM ET
Oklahoma man charged with mailing powder-filled letters to officials ahead of elections (this story)
Nov 3, 1 PM ET