France blames Iran for supermarket fridge cyberattacks

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France blames Iran for supermarket fridge cyberattacks

Nov 9, 1 PM ET to Nov 10, 10 AM ET

22outlets carried it
🫏9 · 5 · 8🐘left · center · right
21 hourson the front pages
22front pages at once, at its peak
6 minof TV captions
4radio newscasts
34people retold it online
2 of 2parts of a saga

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Nov 9, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Nov 9, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Nov 9, 4 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 10, 5 AM ETretold online by 34 people
Nov 10, 10 AM ETpeak: on 22 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 9, 1 PM to Nov 10, 10 AM ET (peak 22), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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.

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word

Newsmax

💬 Quoted

“Unprecedented”2
“sabotage”1
“unprecedented”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Google News · Drudge Report

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “France blames Iran for the last month’s cyberattack on supermarket fridges” → “France blames Iran for a cyberattack that heated supermarket refrigerators”
BBC (2 wordings): “France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking” → “Iran rejects French claims it was behind supermarket fridge hacking”
CNN (2 wordings): “France blames Iran for ‘unprecedented’ supermarket fridge cyberattack” → “France blames Iran for ‘unprecedented’ supermarket fridge cyberattack France has blamed Iran for last month’s supermarket fridge cyberattack which spoiled produce at around 700 retailers, and vowed to slap sanctions on Tehran in response.”
NBC News (2 wordings): “France accuses Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of hacking supermarket refrigerators” → “France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hack”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “French Officials Accuse Iran of Refrigerator Hacks” → “France Blames Iran for Last Month's Cyberattack on Supermarket Fridges”
Reuters (3 wordings): “EXCLUSIVE: French officials accuse Iran of being behind refrigerator hacks” → “France summons Iran envoy over supermarket fridge hack, warns of response”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Iran hacked hundreds of French supermarket refrigerators, France says” → “Iran hacked hundreds of French supermarket refrigerators, France says - The Washington Post”

📰 Every outlet's headline 22left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian🕒 Nov 9, 1 PM ET Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says
AP🕒 Nov 9, 1 PM ET France blames Iran for the last month’s cyberattack on supermarket fridges
Axios🕒 Nov 9, 9 PM ET France blames Iran for supermarket fridge hacks
CBS News🕒 Nov 9, 1 PM ET France says Iran behind costly grocery store refrigeration hacks
CNBC🕒 Nov 10, 5 AM ET France blames Iran for supermarket refrigerator cyberattacks, weighs sanctions
CNN🕒 Nov 9, 1 PM ET France blames Iran for ‘unprecedented’ supermarket fridge cyberattack
NBC News🕒 Nov 9, 5 PM ET France accuses Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of hacking supermarket refrigerators
NPR🕒 Nov 9, 6 PM ET France accuses Iran of cyber 'sabotage' in fridge attacks
The Washington Post🕒 Nov 9, 5 PM ET Iran hacked hundreds of French supermarket refrigerators, France says
BBC🕒 Nov 9, 12 PM ET France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking
Bloomberg🕒 Nov 9, 1 PM ET France Says Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Carried Out Fridge Hacks
Financial Times🕒 Nov 9, 2 PM ET France accuses Iran of cyber attacks on supermarket refrigerators
Forbes🕒 Nov 9, 4 PM ET France Blames Iran For Cyberattack That Heated Supermarket Refrigerators—Causing Millions In Damage
Reuters🕒 Nov 9, 1 PM ET EXCLUSIVE: French officials accuse Iran of being behind refrigerator hacks
The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 9, 2 PM ET France Blames Iran for Supermarket Fridge Cyberattack
Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 10, 10 AM ET France blames Iran for supermarket refrigerator cyberattack
Breitbart🕒 Nov 10, 9 AM ET France Says Iran Behind Supermarket Sabotage Fridge Hack
IJR🕒 Nov 9, 2 PM ET France accuses Iran Guards of nationwide fridge cyberattack
Newsmax🕒 Nov 9, 1 PM ET French Officials Accuse Iran of Refrigerator Hacks
The Daily Wire🕒 Nov 9, 8 PM ET France Blames Iran For Grocery Store Hack That Spoiled Food And Sparked Fires
The National Desk🕒 Nov 9, 2 PM ET France blames Iran-linked hackers for supermarket fridge attack, vows sanctions
The Western Journal🕒 Nov 9, 9 PM ET Iran Accused of Hacking French Supermarket Refrigerators in Latest Cyber Attacks: 'Unprecedented'

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

🫏 NPR News Now 4× · best #2

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ 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.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

France blames Iran's IRGC for cyberattacks on supermarket refrigerators and vows to implement sanctions. Nov 10: told by 34 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ Names in it

FranceIranIran's Revolutionary Guards

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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