BND - FBI foils ISIS-inspired Mall of America attack plot

🗞️ Story file #194

FBI foils ISIS-inspired Mall of America attack plot

Oct 7, 2 PM ET to Oct 7, 6 PM ET

34outlets carried it
🫏10 · 5 · 19🐘left · center · right
4 hourson the front pages
34front pages at once, at its peak
22 minof TV captions
2radio newscasts

👣 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.

Oct 7, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
Oct 7, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 7, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 7, 6 PM ETpeak: on 34 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 2 PM to Oct 7, 6 PM ET (peak 34), 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. 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 (Los Angeles Times)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News

💬 quoted: “I want to harm the Jew” “Mass Casualty” “mass-casualty” “radicalized young man”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 federal prosecutors

✏️ 11 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (3 wordings): “Man arrested in foiled mass shooting plot at Mall of America, federal officials say” → “ISIS-inspired mass shooting plot at Mall of America thwarted, FBI says”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “FBI Arrests Alleged ISIS-Inspired Attacker Planning Minnesota Mass Shooting at Mall of America” → “FBI Arrests Alleged ISIS-Inspired Attacker Planning Minnesota Mass Shooting”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Federal prosecutors in Minnesota charge man with terrorism after they say he planned to target the Mall of America” → “Federal prosecutors in Minnesota charge man with terrorism after they say he planned to target the Mall of America”
Fox News (4 wordings): “Mall of America terror plot thwarted, suspected ISIS sympathizer arrested, FBI announces” → “Mall of America terror plot suspect is birthright citizen with Somali parents: sources”
Just the News (2 wordings): “Man in Minnesota allegedly planned attack on Mall of America” → “FBI says it stopped the Mall of America terror attack after selling rifle to teenage suspect”
Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “FBI says it thwarted an attack on the Mall of America by a man it supplied with an assault rifle” → “FBI says it stopped a Mall of America terrorist attack by a man after agents sold him an assault rifle”
New York Post (2 wordings): “FBI arrest teen for allegedly planning terror attack at America’s largest shopping mall” → “Somali immigrant charged with plotting antisemitic terror attack on Mall of America: ‘I want to harm the Jew’”
Red State (3 wordings): “New: FBI Arrests ISIS Supporter in Mall of America Plot” → “Islamic Terrorism New: FBI Arrests ISIS Supporter in Mall of America Plot Ward Clark”
Star Tribune (2 wordings): “Federal terrorism charge: Man planned attack on Mall of America” → “Federal prosecutors accuse man of plotting attack on Mall of America”
Townhall (3 wordings): “Teen Arrested in Alleged ISIS-Inspired Plot to Terrorize Mall of America” → “Man Arrested in Alleged ISIS-Inspired 'Mass Casualty' Attack on Mall of America”
Washington Examiner (3 wordings): “FBI stops Mall of America ISIS terrorist plot in yearslong sting operation” → “FBI stops Mall of America ISIS terrorist plot in yearslong sting”

Every outlet's first headline (34), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost The FBI Says It Thwarted An Attack On The Mall Of America Oct 7, 3 PM ET
The Guardian FBI says it thwarted terrorist attack in Minnesota by an 18-year-old it supplied with an AK-47 Oct 7, 5 PM ET
ABC News Man arrested in foiled mass shooting plot at Mall of America, federal officials say Oct 7, 2 PM ET
AP FBI says it stopped a Mall of America terror attack by a teen after agents sold him an assault rifle Oct 7, 6 PM ET
CBS News Man eyed Mall of America for attack, pledged allegiance to ISIS, FBI says Oct 7, 1 PM ET
CNN Breaking News Federal prosecutors in Minnesota charge man with terrorism after they say he planned to target the Mall of America Oct 7, 3 PM ET
Los Angeles Times FBI says it thwarted an attack on the Mall of America by a man it supplied with an assault rifle Oct 7, 5 PM ET
Mediaite BREAKING: FBI Nabs ISIS-Loving Teen Who Allegedly Plotted to Massacre Non-Muslims at USA’s Biggest Mall Oct 7, 3 PM ET
Star Tribune Federal terrorism charge: Man planned attack on Mall of America Oct 7, 2 PM ET
The Independent FBI arrests Minnesota teen who planned ISIS-inspired Mall of America attack Oct 7, 4 PM ET
Fortune FBI thwarts ‘radicalized young man’ after undercover sting operation where he bought an assault rifle to attack the Mall of America Oct 7, 4 PM ET
News Nation Islamic terrorist attack in Minneapolis foiled, FBI says Oct 7, 3 PM ET
Scripps News Crime Alleged Mall of America attack foiled after FBI sold teen suspect rifle in sting AP via Scripps News Group Oct 7, 2 PM ET
Straight Arrow News FBI says it arrested a man who planned terrorist attack at the Mall of America Oct 7, 3 PM ET
The Hill FBI foils alleged terrorist attack at Minneapolis’s Mall of America Oct 7, 4 PM ET
Just the News Man in Minnesota allegedly planned attack on Mall of America Oct 7, 4 PM ET
The Epoch Times FBI Arrests 18-Year-Old Accused of Plotting ISIS Mall of America Attack in Minnesota Oct 7, 4 PM ET
The Washington Times ‘Start killing a bunch of white people’: Feds foil ISIS plot for mass shooting at Mall of America Oct 7, 6 PM ET
Washington Examiner FBI stops Mall of America ISIS terrorist plot in yearslong sting operation Oct 7, 3 PM ET
Breitbart FBI Arrests Alleged ISIS-Inspired Attacker Planning Minnesota Mass Shooting at Mall of America Oct 7, 5 PM ET
Fox News Mall of America terror plot thwarted, suspected ISIS sympathizer arrested, FBI announces Oct 7, 2 PM ET
IJR Man Arrested Over Alleged ISIS Mall Plot Oct 7, 4 PM ET
New York Post FBI arrest teen for allegedly planning terror attack at America’s largest shopping mall Oct 7, 2 PM ET
Newsmax Minnesota Man Charged in ISIS-Inspired Mall Plot Oct 7, 5 PM ET
OAN DOJ: FBI arrests and charges teen for planning ‘mass-casualty’ event at Mall of America in support of ISIS Oct 7, 4 PM ET
PJ Media Just Before October 7, FBI Thwarts ISIS-Tied Plot for Mall of America Mass Shooting Oct 7, 3 PM ET
Red State New: FBI Arrests ISIS Supporter in Mall of America Plot Oct 7, 2 PM ET
The Blaze Teen wannabe ISIS terrorist plotted to slaughter dozens of non-Muslims at Mall of America, FBI says Oct 7, 6 PM ET
The Daily Caller FBI Foils Alleged ISIS Plot To Massacre Mall Of America Shoppers Oct 7, 5 PM ET
The Daily Wire Somali Man Accused Of Plotting Mall Of America Attack In Name Of ISIS Oct 7, 3 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit Another ISIS Sympathizer in Tim Walz’s Minnesota: FBI Arrests an 18-Year-Old Somali Suspect at Gunpoint After Plotting a Mass-Casualty Attack at Mall of America Oct 7, 3 PM ET
The Post Millennial Feds arrest ISIS sympathizer Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud for plotting massive terror attack at Minnesota's Mall of America Oct 7, 3 PM ET
The Western Journal Breaking: FBI Arrests Somali-American Allegedly Planning ISIS Attack in Minnesota Oct 7, 4 PM ET
Townhall Teen Arrested in Alleged ISIS-Inspired Plot to Terrorize Mall of America Oct 7, 3 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN14 min

Fox News8 min

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS CHARGE MAN WITH TERRORISM AFTER HE DISCUSSED TARGETING THE MALL OF AMERICA CNN, 6 min
FEDS CHARGE MAN IN ALLEGED PLOT TO ATTACK MALL OF AMERICA CNN, 4 min
18-YEAR-OLD CHARGED IN ALLEGED PLOT TO ATTACK MALL OF AMERICA. Richard Kolko | Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent CNN, 2 min
DOJ: CHARGED TEEN WITH PLANNING ATTACK IN SUPPORT OF ISIS Fox News, 86 s
18-YEAR-OLD CHARGED IN ALLEGED PLOT TO ATTACK MALL OF AMERICA. Christopher Dotson | FBI Special Agent in Charge, Minneapolis Field Office CNN, 72 s
DOJ: THREAT OF TERROR IN SUPPORT OF ISIS IS ACTIVE Fox News, 67 s
DOJ AND FBI BREAK UP ISIS-INSPIRED PLOT TO "SHOOT UP" MN'S MALL OF AMERICA Fox News, 46 s
FBI: SUSPECT IN FOILED MALL OF AMERICA ATTACK. PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS Fox News, 45 s