US charges three men with plotting terror attacks including planned assault on UK airbase

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US charges three men with plotting terror attacks including planned assault on UK airbase

Nov 10, 6 PM ET to Nov 12, 2 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.

19front pages over its life
🫏9 · 3 · 7🐘left · center · right
1.8 dayson the front pages
18front pages at once, at its peak
13 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
5stories in its saga

📰 read it at: HuffPost Axios CBS News Los Angeles Times Military.com NBC News NPR PBS NewsHour The Washington Post BBC News Nation Scripps News Just the News The Epoch Times Breitbart Newsmax OAN PJ Media The Daily Wire

Nov 10, 4 PM ET
first on front pages: Axios, HuffPost and The Washington Post
Nov 10, 5 PM ET
the news that day, Scripps News:
“US charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including one on UK airbase”
Nov 10, 10 PM ET
first on TV: BBC News
Nov 11, 6 AM ET
the news that day, NPR:
“Iran-backed trio accused of plotting attacks on U.K. base hosting U.S. jets”
Nov 11, 9 AM ET
first on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 11, 6 PM ET
peak: on 18 front pages at once
Nov 12, 9 AM ET
the news that day, Breitbart:
“Alleged Masterminds of Iranian Terror Attacks Indicted in U.S.”

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it each hour, by the outlets' lean, the side that had it first at the bottom:leftleans leftcenterleans rightright. First: Axios, HuffPost and The Washington Post, Tue 4:02 PM ET.

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.

1Tue 5 PM“US charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including one on UK airbase”Scripps News
2Wed 6 AM“Iran-backed trio accused of plotting attacks on U.K. base hosting U.S. jets”NPR
3Thu 9 AM“Alleged Masterminds of Iranian Terror Attacks Indicted in U.S.”Breitbart

💬 Quoted

“Fairford Plot”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

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

▸ ✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “Alleged Masterminds of Iranian Terror Attacks Indicted in U.S.” → “Alleged Masterminds of Iranian Terror Attacks, Including ‘Fairford Plot’ Against USAF, Indicted in U.S.”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “U.S. Charges 3 Men With Plotting Nearly 20 Iran-Affiliated Terror Attacks” → “U.S. Charges 3 Men With Plotting Terror Attacks, Including Planned Assault On UK Air Base”
Just the News (2 wordings): “US charges three men with plotting nearly 20 attacks on Jewish communities in Europe, US” → “Three Iranian men indicted on terrorism charges in New York”
NPR (2 wordings): “Iran-backed trio accused of plotting attacks on U.K. base hosting U.S. jets” → “An Iran-backed trio is accused of plotting attacks on a U.K. base hosting U.S. jets”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “US charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including planned assault on UK airbase” → “Three men backed by Iran plotted to attack British air base, U.S. says”

📰 Every outlet's headline 19left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET U.S. Charges 3 Men With Plotting Nearly 20 Iran-Affiliated Terror Attacks
Axios🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET 3 charged with plotting terror attacks in U.S., Europe
CBS News🕒 Nov 10, 7 PM ET 3 Iran-backed operatives indicted for alleged role in terror plots
Los Angeles Times🕒 Nov 10, 11 PM ET U.S. charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including planned assault on U.K. airbase
Military.com🕒 Nov 11, 1 PM ET US Charges 3 Men With Plotting Terror Attacks, Including Planned Assault on UK Air Base
NBC News🕒 Nov 11, 6 AM ET U.S. charges 3 men with plotting multiple terror attacks, including on British air base
NPR🕒 Nov 11, 6 AM ET Iran-backed trio accused of plotting attacks on U.K. base hosting U.S. jets
PBS NewsHour🕒 Nov 10, 6 PM ET U.S. charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including planned assault on UK airbase
The Washington Post🕒 Nov 10, 4 PM ET US charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including planned assault on UK airbase
BBC🕒 Nov 10, 9 PM ET Three Iran-backed suspects plotted attacks including RAF Fairford incident, US says
News Nation🕒 Nov 10, 9 PM ET Iran-backed operatives charged in 20 terror attack cases
Scripps News🕒 Nov 10, 5 PM ET US charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including one on UK airbase
Just the News🕒 Nov 10, 5 PM ET US charges three men with plotting nearly 20 attacks on Jewish communities in Europe, US
The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 11, 8 AM ET Iran-Backed Fugitives Charged In Foiled Attack Plot on UK Base Used by US Forces
Breitbart🕒 Nov 12, 9 AM ET Alleged Masterminds of Iranian Terror Attacks Indicted in U.S.
Newsmax🕒 Nov 10, 6 PM ET US Charges 3 in Iran-Linked UK Airbase Plot
OAN🕒 Nov 11, 3 PM ET DOJ: 3 Iranian-backed operatives indicted over terror plots in U.S. and Europe, including RAF Fairford
PJ Media🕒 Nov 10, 9 PM ET Iranian-Linked Terrorists Who Targeted UK Base Indicted in Nearly 20 Attacks
The Daily Wire🕒 Nov 11, 6 PM ET Three Iranians Indicted For Terror Plot Against Air Force Base

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

leans left
center
right

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 1× · best #3

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

⚖️ Up First (NPR) 1

🕵️ 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

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

🗣️ Names in it

IranJewish communities

what the fact-checkers looked into

No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 U.S. Military Deployment in UK →

1
Oct 7, 9 AM ET
U.S. bombers withdrawn from UK base due to threat concerns
2
Oct 4, 6 PM ET
U.S. removes bombers from UK base amid suspected Iranian drone plot
3
Nov 10, 5 AM ET
U.S. moves aircraft from second UK base over Iran threat
4
Nov 10, 6 PM ET · 📍 this story
US charges three men with plotting terror attacks including planned assault on UK airbase
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Nov 13, 5 PM ET
US air force responds to suspected drone activity at UK airbase

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