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🗞️ Story file #162

California couple arrested in child abuse investigation

Oct 6, 5 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, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: Los Angeles Times
  2. Oct 6, 6 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 6, 6 PM7 PM510leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 5 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 10), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 6, 4 PM5 PM6 PM7 PMCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: California couple at center of surrogacy scandal arrestedThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: California couple charged with child abuse in surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 childrenIJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Arcadia Couple Arrested in 21-Child Abuse ProbeHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Couple Arrested On Child Abuse Charges Allegedly Engaged In Surrogacy SchemeThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: California couple with 21 children arrested on ‘house of horrors’ child abuse chargesChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: California couple arrested on child abuse charges in horrifying surrogacy investigationLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: ‘House of horrors’: Parents at Arcadia surrogacy mansion charged with child abuse conspiracyNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: California couple with 21 children, most born via surrogates, charged in ‘house of horrors’ abuse caseAPAPAP, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: California couple arrested on child abuse charges in horrifying surrogacy probeWSJThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Los Angeles Couple Found With Mansion Full of Surrogate Children Is Charged With Abuse
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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “house of horrors” 3

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧶 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: California Arcadia California Department of Justice

🔎 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.