🗞️ Story file #221
Royal Navy member charged with spying for foreign power
Oct 8, 6 AM ET to Oct 9, 1 PM ET
- 8outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 3 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 1.3 dayson the front pages
- 8front pages at once, at its peak
- 6 minof TV captions
- 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 8, 6 AM ETfirst on a front page: Reuters
- Oct 8, 6 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 8, 10 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
- Oct 9, 6 AM ETretold online by 7 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (The Guardian)
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- BBC (3 wordings): “Royal Navy service member charged with spying” → “Royal Navy sailor in court accused of preparing to spy for Russia”
- Newsmax (3 wordings): “Royal Navy Member Charged with Preparing to Disclose Sensitive Information to a Foreign Power” → “Royal Navy Member Appears in Court on Spying Charges”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “UK police charge member of Royal Navy under National Security Act” → “UK Royal Navy sailor appears in court charged under National Security Act”
- The Guardian (4 wordings): “Royal Navy service member appears in court charged with spying for Russia” → “Royal Navy sailor accused of spying for Russia appears in court”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
Royal Navy service member appears in court charged with spying for Russia Oct 8, 8 AM ET
AP
Royal Navy sailor appears in court on charges of spying for Russia Oct 8, 10 AM ET
BBC
Royal Navy service member charged with spying Oct 8, 4 AM ET
Bloomberg
Navy Serviceman Charged With UK National Security Act Offenses Oct 8, 4 AM ET
Reuters
UK police charge member of Royal Navy under National Security Act Oct 8, 6 AM ET
IJR
Royal Navy Sailor Charged Over Foreign Spy Allegations Oct 8, 6 AM ET
New York Post
UK Navy serviceman accused of spying for foreign power Oct 8, 6 AM ET
Newsmax
Royal Navy Member Charged with Preparing to Disclose Sensitive Information to a Foreign Power Oct 8, 5 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Royal Navy sailor charged with spying appears in court BBC News, 4 min
- Royal Navy sailor in court accused of espionage BBC News, 47 s
- Royal Navy sailor accused of preparing to spy for Russia BBC News, 36 s
- Navy spy charge BBC News, 22 s
- Royal Navy sailor charged with spying for foreign power BBC News, 18 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- A 24-year-old Royal Navy sailor, Able Seaman a Royal Navy sailor, is accused of preparing to spy for Russia by allegedly passing protected UK defense and intelligence information to a foreign power. Oct 9: told by 7 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Royal Navy Foreign power Royal Navy serviceman UK Navy serviceman Royal Navy member
🔎 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.