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🗞️ Story file #279

Cornell accuser describes alleged 2024 gang rape incident

Oct 9, 11 AM ET to Oct 9, 11 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 9, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: Breitbart
  2. Oct 9, 11 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 8, 12 PM6 PMOct 96 AMThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 7, 12:00 PM ET: Cornell Accuser Did Bodybuilding Poses During Orgy She Later Claimed Was Gang RapeABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 7, 3:00 PM ET: What Jane Doe told Cornell hearing panel about alleged 2024 gang rapeBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 9, 11:00 AM ET: Cornell’s Jane Doe’s Damning Texts Revealed Called Night of Drug-Fueled Sex ’Gang Bang’ ’our body our choice’
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: “our body our choice” 3 “Gang Bang” “gangbang” “our bodies our choice”

Every outlet's first headline (3), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Timcast IRL 🎙️ CNN 5 Things

🧶 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 University Jane Doe Media Our Body Our Choice Texts

🔎 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 (this story)

    Oct 9, 11 AM ET

  11. Cornell accuser faces threats and swatting

    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 faces faculty scrutiny over sexual assault allegations

    Oct 13, 2 PM ET