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🗞️ Story file #147

Justice department seeks to strip citizenship from 40 individuals

Oct 6, 12 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

👣 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, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The New Republic
  2. Oct 6, 6 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 6, 1 PM2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PM6 PM7 PM613leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 12 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 13), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 5, 6 PMOct 66 AM12 PM6 PMNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: DOJ moves to revoke U.S. citizenship for 40 foreign-born AmericansRed StateRed StateRed State, Oct 5, 6:00 PM ET: Lie Your Way Into Citizenship? DOJ Moves to Strip It From 40 Accused Fraudsters.Red State, Oct 5, 8:00 PM ET: DOJ Lie Your Way Into Citizenship? DOJ Moves to Strip It From 40 Accused Fraudsters. Ward ClarkJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 5, 8:00 PM ET: Justice Department announces denaturalization effort against 40 people accused of serious crimesThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 5, 9:00 PM ET: Trump Admin Moves To Strip Citizenship From 40 Foreign-Born AmericansThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 5, 10:00 PM ET: DOJ Seeks to Strip US Citizenship From 2 Men Convicted of Working for Chinese RegimeThe Epoch Times, Oct 6, 12:00 PM ET: DOJ to Strip Citizenship From 40 in ‘Largest Denaturalization’ MoveUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 5, 11:00 PM ET: DOJ to strip citizenship in large-scale 'denaturalization effort'The HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: DOJ files record number of cases to strip Americans of citizenshipThe New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New Republic, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: 40 People at Risk of Losing Citizenship as DOJ Amps Up CrusadeNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: DOJ's 40 Criminal Denaturalization Cases a RecordAxiosAxiosAxios, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: DOJ moves to strip citizenship from 40 peopleTownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Convicted Chinese Spy Is Among 40 People DOJ Wants Stripped of Citizenship Jeff CharlesTownhall, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Convicted Chinese Spy Is Among 40 People DOJ Wants Stripped of CitizenshipTownhall, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: DOJ Convicted Chinese Spy Is Among 40 People DOJ Wants Stripped of Citizenship Jeff CharlesThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: US justice department moves to strip citizenship of 40 naturalized citizensOANOne America News NetworkOne America News Network, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: DOJ moves to denaturalize 40 individuals accused of various offenses
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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “denaturalization effort” “Largest Denaturalization”

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Red State (2 wordings): “Lie Your Way Into Citizenship? DOJ Moves to Strip It From 40 Accused Fraudsters.” → “DOJ Lie Your Way Into Citizenship? DOJ Moves to Strip It From 40 Accused Fraudsters. Ward Clark”
  • The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “DOJ Seeks to Strip US Citizenship From 2 Men Convicted of Working for Chinese Regime” → “DOJ to Strip Citizenship From 40 in ‘Largest Denaturalization’ Move”
  • Townhall (3 wordings): “Convicted Chinese Spy Is Among 40 People DOJ Wants Stripped of Citizenship Jeff Charles” → “DOJ Convicted Chinese Spy Is Among 40 People DOJ Wants Stripped of Citizenship Jeff Charles”
Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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🧶 Retelling

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

🗣️ names in it: Department of Justice Donald Trump 40 people Foreign-born Americans Citizenship

🔎 Checking

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🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

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