🗞️ Story file #260
U.S. presses Russia over suspected plague case
Oct 8, 7 PM ET to Oct 9, 6 AM ET
- 20outlets carried it
- 🫏9 · 4 · 7🐘left · center · right
- 11 hourson the front pages
- 20front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
👣 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, 7 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “plague” “very much under control” “We hope not” “Well China didn't say much, and Russia's not saying much either.” “looking strongly” “Going to find out soon enough”
🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 involved bioweapon 🐘 plague case
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump: No Sign That Russian Plague Case Involved Bioweapon” → “Trump: No Sign Russian Plague Case Involved Bioweapon”
Every outlet's first headline (20), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Trump Says He Doesn’t Think Russian ‘Plague’ Is Escaped Bioweapon Oct 7, 2 PM ET
Salon
Trump says U.S. is “looking strongly” at alleged Russian plague case Oct 5, 8 PM ET
The Daily Beast
Trump Cornered on Vladimir Putin’s Plague Cover-Up Oct 7, 4 PM ET
ABC News
'We hope not': Trump says US doesn't believe Russian plague is a bioweapon Oct 7, 6 PM ET- AP Trump says Russia told him plague risk is ‘very much under control’ Oct 8, 3 AM ET
Axios
Trump, WHO pressure Russia over plague case. Where the mystery stands Oct 7, 4 PM ET
CBS News
Russia open to a Trump-Putin call as questions mount over plague lab death Oct 7, 2 PM ET
CNBC
Trump doesn't think Russia plague incident is bioweapon, plans Putin call Wednesday Oct 7, 3 PM ET
The Independent
Trump reacts after plague researcher dies in Russia Oct 6, 5 AM ET
BBC
How Russia responded to US after plague researcher death Oct 6, 9 PM ET
Newsweek
Russia Plague Scare: WHO Warns of Missing Info as Trump Plans Putin Call Oct 7, 4 PM ET
Straight Arrow News
Trump plans Putin call as US presses Russia for answers over mysterious lab death Oct 7, 8 AM ET
The Hill
Trump says he does not think suspected Russian plague cases are a bioweapon Oct 7, 6 PM ET
Just the News
Trump says he does not believe that possible Russian plague outbreak is a bioweapon Oct 7, 6 PM ET
The Epoch Times
Trump: No Evidence Suggesting Russian Plague Lab Death Involved Bioweapon Oct 8, 3 PM ET
The Sun
PLAGUE ALERT Russia claims it has 'plague' under control, Trump says THE US president said: 'Well China didn’t say much, and Russia's not saying much either.' Oct 8, 11 AM ET
IJR
Trump Plans Putin Call on Suspected Siberian Plague Case Oct 6, 9 PM ET
New York Post
Trump tamps down speculation Russia plague lab worker died from bioweapon: ‘Going to find out soon enough’ Oct 7, 5 PM ET
Newsmax
Trump: No Sign That Russian Plague Case Involved Bioweapon Oct 7, 8 PM ET
The Daily Wire
Trump Goes Straight To The Top Over Russia’s Plague Mystery As U.S. Issues Complaint Oct 7, 10 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
🧶 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: Russia Donald Trump Vladimir Putin
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Russian plague cover-up
Russian lab worker dies in suspected plague incident
Oct 4, 6 PM ET
U.S. presses Russia over suspected plague case (this story)
Oct 8, 7 PM ET