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🗞️ Story file #1563

Police investigate further rape allegations against Russell Brand

Nov 7, 3 AM ET to Nov 7, 7 AM ET

📰 read it at: The Guardian NBC News The Washington Post

👣 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. Nov 7, 3 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Post
  2. Nov 7, 6 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Nov 7, 4 AM5 AM6 AM7 AM23left
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 7, 3 AM to Nov 7, 7 AM ET (peak 3), by the outlets' lean: left
Nov 6, 6 AM12 PM6 PMNov 76 AMNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Nov 5, 10:01 PM ET: Brand being investigated on further rape allegations, police sayThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Nov 6, 5:02 AM ET: London police chief urges potential victims of Russell Brand to come forwardThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Nov 7, 3:02 AM ET: London police say there could be ‘many more’ potential Russell Brand victims - The Washington Post
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

  1. “many more”1

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📰 Every outlet's headline 3left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ On the shows

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  1. 🫏 Today in Focus (Guardian) 1

🕵️ 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.

🗣️ Names in it

Russell BrandLondonPoliceNolteVictims

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Russell Brand rape trial

  1. Russell Brand testifies in rape and sexual assault trial

    Oct 28, 10 AM ET

  2. Jury begins deliberations in Russell Brand's rape trial

    Nov 3, 4 PM ET

  3. Police investigate further rape allegations against Russell Brand (this story)

    Nov 7, 3 AM ET

  4. Russell Brand faces sentencing for rape and sexual assault

    Nov 5, 10 AM ET

  5. Russell Brand sentenced to over 10 years in prison for rape and sexual assault

    Nov 9, 10 AM ET

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