Evidence found miles from jet crash site in Florida

🗞️ Story file #1383

Evidence found miles from jet crash site in Florida

Nov 4, 8 AM ET to Nov 4, 6 PM ET

1outlet carried it
🫏1 · 0 · 0🐘left · center · right
10 hourson the front pages
22front pages at once, at its peak
1fact-check
2 of 4parts of a saga

📰 read it at: USA Today

👣 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.

Nov 4, 12 PM ETpeak: on 22 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 4, 8 AM to Nov 4, 6 PM ET (peak 1), by the outlets' lean: left

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.

💬 Quoted

“Very important”4
“Very significant”1
“Significant”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

📰 Every outlet's headline 1left to right by AllSides rating

USA Today🕒 Nov 3, 5 PM ET 'Very significant' evidence found in Florida jet crash investigation

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

center
right

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

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Fake news 🔎 Full Fact
“Facebook posts claim a plane crash was faked using CGI to cover up a missile strike.”
🧩 It was a missile 🔎 Full Fact
“Facebook posts claim a plane crash was faked using CGI to cover up a missile strike.”

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

FloridaPalm Beach CountyLearjetNTSB

what the fact-checkers looked into