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🗞️ Story file #168

Russian oligarch says Trump Jr. paid back wedding costs

Oct 6, 6 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, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Raw Story
  2. Oct 6, 6 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 6, 7 PM36leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 6 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 6, 12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PMBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 6, 11:00 AM ET: Russian Tycoon Kremlev Says Trump Jr. Paid Back Wedding TabPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: Russian oligarch says Trump Jr. has paid him back for wedding celebrationThe Daily BeastThe Daily BeastThe Daily Beast, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Don Jr.’s Russian Wedding Sponsor Reveals His Bizarre ‘Thank You’NewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: Russian Oligarch: Trump Jr. Has Repaid Wedding CostsMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: Putin-Linked Oligarch Says Trump Jr. Paid Him Back: ‘I Don’t Understand Why’Raw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 6, 6:00 PM ET: ​Don Jr. baffles Russian oligarch at center of his wedding scandal with ‘ridiculous' move
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.

💬 quoted: “I Don't Understand Why” “ridiculous” “Thank You”

Every outlet's first headline (6), 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: Russia Donald Trump Jr Russian oligarch Kremlev Putin Trump Jr

🔎 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.