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πŸ—žοΈ Story file #160

Ukraine launches drone attack on Russia

Oct 6, 4 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

πŸ‘£ 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, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Washington Examiner
  2. Oct 6, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

πŸ“° Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 4 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left Β· center Β· right
Oct 6, 8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PMNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 6, 6:00 AM ET: Ukraine Launches One of Largest Aerial Attacks on Moscow in YearsThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Oct 6, 8:00 AM ET: Ukraine unleashes barrage of drones on Moscow... Blitzes key oil hub...The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 6, 8:00 AM ET: Moscow hit by largest attack in two years as Kyiv targets major oil facilityNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 6, 8:00 AM ET: Russia Says Nearly 900 Ukrainian Drones Downed and Moscow Region Fuel Depot Reportedly BurnsChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 6, 9:00 AM ET: Ukraine fires nearly 900 drones at Russia as Kyiv braces for expected huge aerial attackNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 6, 12:00 PM ET: Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday.New York Post, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Ukraine fires nearly 900 drones at Russia as Kyiv braces for expected, huge aerial attackWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Ukraine launches 650 drones toward Moscow in large-scale aerial attack
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.
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • New York Post (2 wordings): β€œRussian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday.” β†’ β€œUkraine fires nearly 900 drones at Russia as Kyiv braces for expected, huge aerial attack”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

πŸ“‘ Broadcast

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🧢 Retelling

what people online made of it

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

πŸ—£οΈ names in it: Ukraine Russia Moscow Kyiv Defense Ministry of Russia Ukrainian military

πŸ”Ž Checking

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🧡 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

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