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🗞️ Story file #257

Cornell accuser faces threats and swatting

Oct 8, 6 PM ET to Oct 11, 4 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 8, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Wire
  2. Oct 9, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  3. Oct 9, 4 PM ETpeak: on 14 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 6 PM to Oct 11, 4 AM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 8, 12 PMOct 912 PMOct 1012 PMOct 11BBCBBCBBC, Oct 8, 6:00 AM ET: Cornell rape case accuser has received ‘threats’, attorney tells BBC NewshourNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 8, 8:00 AM ET: Cornell Jane Doe's attorney shares threatening calls, messages she's receivedNews Nation, Oct 9, 3:00 PM ET: Threats escalate against Jane Doe as Cornell 7 texts come to lightNews Nation, Oct 9, 4:00 PM ET: Leaked texts show Jane Doe's messages days after alleged Cornell frat assaultNews Nation, Oct 9, 10:00 PM ET: Cornell accuser’s lawyer blasts critics, alleges cover-upNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 8, 9:00 AM ET: exclusive Sick threats against ‘Cornell 7’ Jane Doe revealed — including twisted phone call threatening to ‘shoot’ her family if she doesn’t drop suitYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 8, 11:00 AM ET: Cornell's Jane Doe is 'terrified' after police swatting incident, lawyer saysThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 8, 2:00 PM ET: Cornell Jane Doe swatted in fake 911 call that sent armed police to her home, lawyer saysThe Independent, Oct 9, 9:00 AM ET: Cornell Jane Doe swatted by police after fake 911 call: reportABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 8, 2:00 PM ET: Attorney says Jane Doe facing threats, calls out alleged 'failures' of CornellWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 8, 3:00 PM ET: Cornell case death threats and swatting make Jane Doe ‘terrified,’ lawyer saysNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 8, 5:00 PM ET: Cornell Accuser ‘Absolutely Terrified’ Amid Threats, Lawyer SaysNewsweek, Oct 9, 5:00 PM ET: Cornell Accuser ‘Absolutely Terrified’ as Judge Seals Filings Over ThreatsThe Post MillennialThe Post MillennialThe Post Millennial, Oct 8, 6:00 PM ET: JUST IN: Cornell Jane Doe defended 'gangbang' in texts, said 'our bodies our choice': reportThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 8, 6:00 PM ET: Unearthed Texts Show Cornell Accuser Told Men ‘I Really Do Love U’ Days After Claimed RapeThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 8, 10:05 PM ET: Bombshell: New Text from Cornell Rape Accuser Contains 4 Case-Killing Words - 'Our Body Our Choice' - Media Omits Them AllThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Oct 8, 11:05 PM ET: FRAT SHAME All Cornell 7 evidence as 'picture of Jane Doe shared DURING assault emerges'The Sun, Oct 9, 7:00 PM ET: LOST MEMORIES Leaked texts Jane Doe 'sent to frat bro who raped her' reveal new details on the timeline of her allegationsTownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 9, 8:00 AM ET: 'Our Body, Our Choice': The New Texts From Jane Doe in the Cornell Case Are Very InterestingScripps NewsScripps NewsScripps News, Oct 9, 12:00 PM ET: Crime Cornell sexual assault accuser living in fear after threats, attorney says Alexandra MillerBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 9, 1:00 PM ET: Cornell’s Jane Doe’s Damning Texts Revealed Called Night of Drug-Fueled Sex ’Gang Bang’ ’Our Body Our Choice’Breitbart, Oct 9, 6:00 PM ET: Report — Cornell Accuser Jane Doe on Alleged Assault: ‘Our Body Our Choice’Breitbart, Oct 9, 10:00 PM ET: Cornell’s Jane Doe’s Damning Texts Revealed Called Night of Drug-Fueled Sex ’Gang Bang’The FederalistThe FederalistThe Federalist, Oct 9, 4:00 PM ET: Legacy Media Reports On Cornell Jane Doe’s Texts Left Out ‘Our Body Our Choice’ CommentThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 10, 10:00 AM ET: The Jane Doe in the Cornell seven case is getting threatsThe Guardian, Oct 10, 9:00 PM ET: Jane Doe in the Cornell seven case is getting threats📺 TVFox News, 10:57 AM ET: ATTY: SOME FORMER FRATERNITY MEMBERS DOXXEDFox News, 6:24 PM ET: "PRETTY LITTLE LIARS" ACTOR ASSAULT. AUTHORITIES SEARCH FOR ARMED SUSPECTS
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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “failures” “Gang Bang” “I Really Do Love U” “sent to frat bro who raped her” “Our Body, Our Choice” “Our Body Our Choice” 3 “gangbang” “Absolutely Terrified”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 cornell accuser

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (3 wordings): “Cornell’s Jane Doe’s Damning Texts Revealed Called Night of Drug-Fueled Sex ’Gang Bang’ ’Our Body Our Choice’” → “Cornell’s Jane Doe’s Damning Texts Revealed Called Night of Drug-Fueled Sex ’Gang Bang’”
  • News Nation (4 wordings): “Cornell Jane Doe's attorney shares threatening calls, messages she's received” → “Cornell accuser’s lawyer blasts critics, alleges cover-up”
  • Newsweek (2 wordings): “Cornell Accuser ‘Absolutely Terrified’ Amid Threats, Lawyer Says” → “Cornell Accuser ‘Absolutely Terrified’ as Judge Seals Filings Over Threats”
  • The Guardian (2 wordings): “The Jane Doe in the Cornell seven case is getting threats” → “Jane Doe in the Cornell seven case is getting threats”
  • The Independent (2 wordings): “Cornell Jane Doe swatted in fake 911 call that sent armed police to her home, lawyer says” → “Cornell Jane Doe swatted by police after fake 911 call: report”
  • The Sun (2 wordings): “FRAT SHAME All Cornell 7 evidence as 'picture of Jane Doe shared DURING assault emerges'” → “LOST MEMORIES Leaked texts Jane Doe 'sent to frat bro who raped her' reveal new details on the timeline of her allegations”
Every outlet's first headline (17), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News31 s
  • "PRETTY LITTLE LIARS" ACTOR ASSAULT. AUTHORITIES SEARCH FOR ARMED SUSPECTS Fox News, 20 s
  • ATTY: SOME FORMER FRATERNITY MEMBERS DOXXED Fox News, 11 s

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🧶 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: Cornell Jane Doe BBC Newshour Cornell 7 BBC

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Cornell sexual assault scandal

  1. District attorney declined to review additional evidence in Cornell rape case

    Oct 3, 2 PM ET

  2. New York governor appoints Attorney General as special prosecutor in Cornell rape case

    Oct 2, 5 PM ET

  3. Letitia James takes over Cornell gang rape investigation

    Oct 3, 12 PM ET

  4. Woman in Cornell rape case faces threats, lawyer says

    Oct 5, 11 AM ET

  5. Cornell faculty prepare no-confidence vote against administration

    Oct 6, 10 AM ET

  6. Defense attorney calls for NY AG to recuse from Cornell investigation

    Oct 6, 8 AM ET

  7. Cornell student seeks removal of New York AG as special prosecutor

    Oct 8, 11 AM ET

  8. Cornell appoints former Deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling

    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

  9. Cornell university investigates alleged rape allegations

    Oct 8, 6 PM ET

  10. Cornell accuser describes alleged 2024 gang rape incident

    Oct 9, 11 AM ET

  11. Cornell accuser faces threats and swatting (this story)

    Oct 8, 6 PM ET

  12. NY attorney General faces bar ethics complaint over Cornell 7 case

    Oct 2, 5 PM ET

  13. Cornell president admits not following up on gang rape allegation

    Oct 13, 2 PM ET