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Senators debate in Michigan Georgia and Maine

Oct 9, 10 PM ET to Oct 10, 11 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

16outlets carried it
🫏6 · 2 · 7🐘left · center · right
13 hourson the front pages
20front pages at once, at its peak
7people retold it online
2 of 4parts 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 9, 10 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages
Oct 10, 4 AM ETretold online by 7 people
Oct 10, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Hill

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 9, 10 PM to Oct 10, 11 AM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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.

💬 quoted: “Con man” “cowardly” “bigot,” “trust fund kid”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 michigan georgia 🫏 personal insults fly

Every outlet's first headline (16), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Jon Ossoff Calls Out Mike Collins Over Social Media Posts, White Nationalist Ties Oct 9, 1 AM ET
The Guardian Key takeaways from Senate debates in Michigan, Georgia and Maine Oct 9, 1 AM ET
CNN Personal insults fly in 3 heated Senate debates Oct 9, 12 PM ET
NBC News Sen. Susan Collins and Troy Jackson debate in Maine Oct 8, 9 PM ET
New York Times Fiery Senate Debates in Maine, Michigan and Georgia: Five Takeaways Oct 9, 1 AM ET
Yahoo News ‘Con man’ and ‘cowardly’: Personal insults fly in heated Michigan, Georgia, Maine Senate debates Oct 9, 7 PM ET
Newsweek Ossoff vs. Collins in Georgia US Senate Debate: Key Moments and Polls Oct 8, 10 PM ET
The Hill Michigan Senate debate goes off the rails: 4 takeaways Oct 10, 7 AM ET
Just the News Georgia Senate debate between Ossoff and Collins covers healthcare, tariffs, gas prices Oct 8, 11 PM ET
The Washington Times Ossoff, Collins clash in Georgia Senate debate over Trump, tariffs and cost of living Oct 8, 9 PM ET
Washington Examiner Five takeaways from the Georgia Senate debate between Ossoff and Collins Oct 9, 8 AM ET
Breitbart Maine Debate: Susan Collins Demands Troy Jackson Apologize for Claim She Is Profiting from Iran War Oct 9, 10 AM ET
New York Post GOP rep fends off claims he’s a ‘bigot,’ rips ‘trust fund kid’ opponent in Georgia Senate debate Oct 9, 8 AM ET
Newsmax In Debate, Rep. Collins Slams Ossoff's Far-Left Connections Oct 9, 9 AM ET
The Daily Signal Collins vs. Ossoff Debate: Biggest Takeaways Oct 9, 9 PM ET
Crooks and Liars Jon Ossoff Hits Mike Collins With Brutal Take-Down Over White Supremacist Ties Oct 9, 9 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Ruthless 📺 The Majority Report

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Susan Collins is corrupt and should be voted out of office. Oct 10: told by 7 people (same issue); told before on Oct 9, Oct 8

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Susan Collins Troy Jackson Jon Ossoff Mike Collins Maine Georgia

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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