🗞️ Story file #152
FBI whistleblower alleges White House pushed probe of ice protesters
Oct 6, 1 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 11outlets carried it
- 🫏8 · 1 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 6 hourson the front pages
- 11front pages at once, at its peak
- 4 minof TV captions
👣 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.
- Oct 6, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: Raw Story
- Oct 6, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 6, 7 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News
💬 quoted: “Make a show for the president”
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- The Hill (2 wordings): “White House, DOJ pushed FBI to investigate protesters, violating ...” → “White House, DOJ pushed FBI to investigate protesters, violating rights: Whistleblower”
Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
White House Pressed FBI To Probe ICE Protesters’ Protected Activity, Whistleblower Alleges: Report Oct 6, 10 AM ET
Raw Story
FBI whistleblower blows lid off Trump protest probe: 'Make a show for the president' Oct 6, 1 PM ET
The New Republic
FBI Whistleblower: Trump Demanded Probe of Protesters Over a TikTok Oct 6, 1 PM ET
CNN
Whistleblower says Trump demanded FBI probe into protesters over a TikTok he saw Oct 6, 4 PM ET
Los Angeles Times
FBI whistleblower alleges Trump ordered investigations of L.A.-area immigration protesters Oct 6, 7 PM ET
Mediaite
FBI Whistleblower Claims Trump Pushed Probe of LA Anti-ICE Protesters: Report Oct 6, 1 PM ET
NBC News
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters Oct 6, 12 PM ET
The Independent
Trump pushed FBI to investigate anti-ICE demonstrators in LA, whistleblower claims Oct 6, 6 PM ET
The Hill
White House, DOJ pushed FBI to investigate protesters, violating ... Oct 6, 6 PM ET
Newsmax
FBI Whistleblower Alleges WH Pressure Over LA ICE Protests Oct 6, 2 PM ET
The Washington Sun
Whistleblower Alleges the FBI Carried Out an Illegal Probe of ICE Protesters Oct 6, 1 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS TRUMP DEMANDED FBI PROBE INTO PROTESTERS OVER A TIKTOK HE SAW CNN, 3 min
- WHISTLEBLOWER: TRUMP DEMANDED FBI INVESTIGATE PROTESTERS CNN, 33 s
🧶 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.
🗣️ names in it: FBI White House Donald Trump ICE TikTok
🔎 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.