🗞️ Story file #213
U.S. prosecutors charge Maduro with torture
Oct 7, 9 PM ET to Oct 8, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 31outlets carried it
- 🫏9 · 9 · 12🐘left · center · right
- 21 hourson the front pages
- 31front pages at once, at its peak
- 50 minof TV captions
- 2radio newscasts
- 7people retold it online
👣 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, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Washington Examiner
- Oct 7, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 8, 4 AM ETretold online by 7 people
- Oct 8, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 8, 6 PM ETpeak: on 31 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost)
📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire Google News Drudge Report
💬 quoted: “American prisoner forced to eat own VOMIT”
✏️ 10 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Axios (2 wordings): “Maduro hit with fresh torture charges” → “Nicolás Maduro and his wife hit with fresh torture charge”
- BBC (2 wordings): “Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expected to face more charges this week” → “Venezuela's ex-leader Nicolás Maduro charged with conspiracy to commit torture”
- Breitbart (2 wordings): “Maduro Faces More Charges over Alleged Torture of Americans” → “Reports: Nicolás Maduro Faces New Charges over Alleged Torture of Americans”
- NBC News (2 wordings): “New US indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture” → “New U.S. indictment charges Maduro with torture”
- Newsmax (4 wordings): “Maduro, Wife Face Charges Over Tortured Americans” → “New Indictment Charges Maduro With Torture”
- Red State (3 wordings): “New Indictment Accuses Maduro of Political Torture” → “Nicolás Maduro New Indictment Accuses Maduro of Political Torture Ward Clark”
- Reuters (7 wordings): “Venezuela's Maduro to face new US charges over alleged torture of Americans, official says” → “Venezuela's Maduro charged in US with ordering torture of opponents, Americans - Reuters”
- The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “US Prosecutors Add Torture Charge Against Former Venezuela Leader Maduro” → “US Prosecutors Add Torture Charge Against Former Venezuelan Leader Maduro”
- The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “Maduro and His Wife to Face Additional Charges Over Torture of Americans” → “Maduro and His Wife Hit with Superseding Indictment”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture” → “Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture of US citizens”
Every outlet's first headline (31), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Venezuela’s Maduro To Face New U.S. Charges Over Alleged Torture Of Americans, Official Says Oct 7, 8 PM ET
The Guardian
Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture Oct 8, 11 AM ET
ABC News
Nicolas Maduro faces new charges alleging torture Oct 8, 1 PM ET
Axios
Maduro hit with fresh torture charges Oct 8, 11 AM ET
CBS News
Nicolas Maduro, wife face torture charge in new U.S. indictment Oct 8, 1 PM ET
Mediaite
NY Officials to Bring Torture Charges Against Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Oct 7, 7 PM ET
NBC News
New US indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture Oct 8, 11 AM ET
NPR
New U.S. indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture Oct 8, 1 PM ET
The Independent
Nicolás Maduro and wife charged with torture for human rights abuses in Venezuela Oct 8, 12 PM ET
BBC
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expected to face more charges this week Oct 7, 7 PM ET- Financial Times US adds torture charges to case against former Venezuelan president Oct 8, 4 PM ET
Fortune
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro faces new U.S. torture charges after 9 months in a New York jail Oct 8, 12 PM ET
News Nation
Maduro, wife hit with torture charges as she seeks release over heart condition Oct 8, 1 PM ET
Reuters
Venezuela's Maduro to face new US charges over alleged torture of Americans, official says Oct 7, 7 PM ET
Scripps News
Crime Nicolás Maduro charged with torture, human rights abuses in new US indictment AP via Scripps News Group Oct 8, 12 PM ET
Straight Arrow News
Nicolás Maduro given new torture charge in unsealed indictment Oct 8, 1 PM ET
The Hill
Trump administration accuses Maduro of torture in latest indictment Oct 8, 2 PM ET
WSJ
U.S. Prosecutors Bring Torture Charge Against Nicolás Maduro Oct 8, 11 AM ET
Just the News
Maduro faces more charges including alleged torture, according to new, unsealed federal indictment Oct 8, 12 PM ET
The Epoch Times
US Prosecutors Add Torture Charge Against Former Venezuela Leader Maduro Oct 8, 2 PM ET
The Sun
GROSS ABUSE Maduro charged with torture after 'American prisoner forced to eat own VOMIT' Oct 8, 1 PM ET
The Washington Times
Venezuela’s Maduro, wife face charges over alleged torture of Americans Oct 8, 2 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Maduro and wife expected to face charges over alleged torture of Americans Oct 7, 9 PM ET
Breitbart
Maduro Faces More Charges over Alleged Torture of Americans Oct 8, 8 AM ET
Fox News
Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia Flores face new charge of conspiracy to torture Americans Oct 8, 2 PM ET
New York Post
Ex-Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro, wife accused of conspiring to torture Americans Oct 8, 11 AM ET
Newsmax
Maduro, Wife Face Charges Over Tortured Americans Oct 7, 6 PM ET- OAN DOJ announces new criminal charges accusing Maduro and his wife of participating in conspiracy to commit torture Oct 8, 5 PM ET
Red State
New Indictment Accuses Maduro of Political Torture Oct 8, 12 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
Maduro and His Wife to Face Additional Charges Over Torture of Americans Oct 7, 7 PM ET
The Washington Sun
Maduro Faces New Charge of Torture of Venezuelans and Americans Oct 8, 6 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- MADURO EXPECTED TO FACE NEW CHARGES OVER ALLEGED TORTURE OF AMERICANS CNN, 11 min
- NICOLAS MADURO & WIFE CHARGED OVER ALLEGED TORTURE OF AMERICANS CNN, 7 min
- Nicolas Maduro & wife deny charges against them BBC News, 4 min
- Sources: charges relate to wrongful detention of U.S. citizens in Venezuelan prisons CNN, 4 min
- New charges relate to torture of US citizens BBC News, 3 min
- U.S. PROSECUTORS: MADURO "AUTHORIZED THE USE OF TORTURE". AGAINST MORE THAN A DOZEN U.S. CITIZENS IN VENEZUELA CNN, 3 min
- Nicolas Maduro faces new charges in US BBC News, 3 min
- MADURO AND WIFE EXPECTED TO FACE NEW CHARGES Fox News, 2 min
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 8, 4:10 PM ET: story 3 of 6
- NPR News Now, Oct 8, 2:09 PM ET: story 2 of 2
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife are expected to face new charges related to the alleged torture of Americans in Venezuelan prisons. Oct 8: told by 7 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Nicolás Maduro Cilia Flores Venezuela
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