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🗞️ Story file #268

Trump urges Minnesotans to fight back against Somali immigrants

Oct 8, 11 PM ET to Oct 10, 10 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, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
  2. Oct 9, 1 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
  3. Oct 9, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 96 AM12 PM6 PMOct 106 AM611leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 11 PM to Oct 10, 10 AM ET (peak 11), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 8, 6 PMOct 96 AM12 PM6 PMOct 106 AMJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 8, 5:00 PM ET: Trump urges Minnesota to 'fight back' against Somali migrantsMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 8, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Tries To Incite Minnesotans to ‘Fight Back’ Against Somali Neighbors: ‘You Have Been Robbed’Washington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 8, 6:00 PM ET: Trump tells Minnesotans to ‘fight back’ against Somali immigrantsWashington Examiner, Oct 8, 6:00 PM ET: Trump tells Minnesotans to ‘fight back’ against Somali immigrants, vows federal backupNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 8, 7:00 PM ET: Trump Tells Minnesota to ‘Fight’ Somali Immigrants Amid Alleged ISIS PlotStar TribuneStar TribuneStar Tribune, Oct 8, 10:05 PM ET: Trump makes more inflammatory comments on Somali community in MinnesotaNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 8, 11:05 PM ET: Trump to Minnesotans: 'Fight Back' Amid Somali ViolenceNewsmax, Oct 9, 12:00 PM ET: Trump to Minnesotans: Fight Somali ViolenceNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 8, 11:05 PM ET: Trump urges Minnesotans to ‘fight back’ against Somali immigrantsThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 9, 7:00 AM ET: Trump says Minnesotans should ‘fight back’ against Somali immigrantsHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 9, 10:00 AM ET: Trump Drums Up Unconscionable Hate In Message To MinnesotansThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 9, 11:00 AM ET: Trump accused of trying to start a ‘race war’ with threats to Somali communities in MinnesotaThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 9, 1:00 PM ET: Trump Urges Minnesotans to 'Fight Back' Against Somali 'Violence, Murder, and Mayhem'📺 TVFox News, 2:56 PM ET: MINNESOTA RESIDENTS DEMAND SOMALI GANG CRACKDOWNSFox News, 2:57 PM ET: MINNESOTA RESIDENTS DEMAND SOMALI GANG CRACKDOWNSFox News, 2:58 PM ET: MINNESOTA RESIDENTS DEMAND SOMALI GANG CRACKDOWNS
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: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Fight Back” 5 “race war” “Violence, Murder, and Mayhem” “You Have Been Robbed” “fight back” 7

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 somali violence

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump to Minnesotans: 'Fight Back' Amid Somali Violence” → “Trump to Minnesotans: Fight Somali Violence”
  • Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Trump tells Minnesotans to ‘fight back’ against Somali immigrants” → “Trump tells Minnesotans to ‘fight back’ against Somali immigrants, vows federal backup”
Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News75 s
  • MINNESOTA RESIDENTS DEMAND SOMALI GANG CRACKDOWNS Fox News, 75 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Hasan Piker

🧶 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: Donald Trump Minnesota Somali ISIS

🔎 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.