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🗞️ Story file #183

U.S. bombers withdrawn from UK base due to threat concerns

Oct 7, 9 AM ET to Oct 7, 11 AM 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 7, 9 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 7, 10 AM11 AM36leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 9 AM to Oct 7, 11 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 6, 12 PM6 PMOct 76 AMThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 5, 5:00 PM ET: ‘Threats’ led to US decision to remove bombers from UK, Trump saysBBCBBCBBC, Oct 5, 5:00 PM ET: Trump: US 'had a threat' that led to withdrawal of bombers at RAF FairfordThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 5, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Says US Bombers Pulled From UK Base Over Lingering Threat ConcernsABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 5, 7:00 PM ET: Trump ties US bomber withdrawal to threat against British baseAPAPAP, Oct 6, 12:00 AM ET: Trump says threats prompted US to remove bombers from British air baseBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 6, 1:00 AM ET: Trump: ‘Threat’ Forced U.S. Bombers from UK; Iran Will ‘Suffer GreatlyBreitbart, Oct 6, 11:00 AM ET: Trump: ‘Threat’ Forced U.S. Bombers from UK — Vows Iran Will ‘Suffer Greatly’ over Any Combat Drone Plot
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: “had a threat” 2 “Threats” “Suffer Greatly”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (2 wordings): “Trump: ‘Threat’ Forced U.S. Bombers from UK; Iran Will ‘Suffer Greatly” → “Trump: ‘Threat’ Forced U.S. Bombers from UK — Vows Iran Will ‘Suffer Greatly’ over Any Combat Drone Plot”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Up First (NPR)

🧶 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: Iran Donald Trump RAF Fairford Royal Air Force

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 U.S. bombers leave UK base

  1. UK-Iranian national released on bail over suspected plot at RAF base

    Oct 3, 8 AM ET

  2. U.S. removes bombers from UK air base after suspected terror plot

    Oct 4, 6 PM ET

  3. UK police arrest seventh man in connection with Fairford airbase incident

    Oct 6, 10 AM ET

  4. U.S. bombers withdrawn from UK base due to threat concerns (this story)

    Oct 7, 9 AM ET

  5. UK PM says Iran's IRGC likely behind airbase incident

    Oct 12, 1 PM ET