🗞️ Story file #1421
Elon Musk's Texas election effort ends in loss
Nov 4, 4 PM ET to Nov 4, 5 PM ET
- 3outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 1 · 0🐘left · center · right
- 1 houron the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 1 of 3parts of a saga
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CNBC 
BBC
👣 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, 5 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📰 Every outlet's headline 3left to right by AllSides rating
- Business Insider🕒 Nov 4, 1 AM ET
Elon Musk's Texas-sized midterms failure
- CNBC🕒 Nov 4, 6 AM ET
Elon Musk's $224 million Texas election gamble fails as AI backlash grows
- BBC🕒 Nov 4, 9 AM ET
Elon Musk's millions fail to deliver Texas for the Republicans in fierce midterms
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- left
🎙️ On the shows
podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation
🕵️ Investigated, joked about
🕵️ 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.
🧶 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.
Elon MuskTexasDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyAI backlash
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Elon Musk's election impact
Elon Musk's Texas election effort ends in loss (this story)
Nov 4, 4 PM ET
Elon Musk jokes about GOP election loss after campaign spending
Nov 4, 5 PM ET
Elon Musk's midterm election bets failed
Nov 4, 9 AM ET