🗞️ Story file #333
Polish police warn of possible attack on PM and defense minister
Oct 11, 8 AM ET to Oct 11, 6 PM ET
- 11outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 3 · 5🐘left · center · right
- 10 hourson the front pages
- 11front pages at once, at its peak
- 27 sof TV captions
- 6people retold it online
👣 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 11, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: Bloomberg
- Oct 11, 8 AM ETretold online by 6 people
- Oct 11, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 11, 2 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “serious”
🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 possible assassination plot
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Poland Probes Possible Plan to Attack Premier Donald Tusk” → “Poland Probes Plot to Kill Premier Donald Tusk After Emailed Tip”
- Breitbart (2 wordings): “Polish Police Warn of Possible Plot to Attack PM Tusk” → “Polish Police Warn of Possible Plot to Attack Prime Minister Donald Tusk”
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Poland's Police Warn of Possible Attack on PM Donald Tusk” → “Police Thwart Planned Attack on Polish PM Donald Tusk”
- Reuters (4 wordings): “Polish security services meet following threat to PM and defence minister” → “Polish police detain man over threat to PM and defence minister”
Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
Police learn of possible plot to attack prime minister Donald Tusk Oct 11, 9 AM ET
AP
Polish police arrest a man suspected of planning to attack Prime Minister Donald Tusk Oct 11, 1 PM ET
NBC News
Poland’s police warn of a possible plot to attack Prime Minister Donald Tusk Oct 11, 7 AM ET
BBC
Poland detains man suspected of planning assassination of PM Tusk Oct 11, 2 PM ET
Bloomberg
Poland Probes Possible Plan to Attack Premier Donald Tusk Oct 11, 8 AM ET
Reuters
Polish security services meet following threat to PM and defence minister Oct 11, 7 AM ET
The Sun
NATO ALERT Poland on high alert after cops warn over PM possible assassination plot Oct 11, 8 AM ET
Breitbart
Polish Police Warn of Possible Plot to Attack PM Tusk Oct 11, 9 AM ET
IJR
Poland investigates possible assassination plot against Tusk Oct 11, 10 AM ET
New York Post
Poland says police got information about possible attack on PM and defense minister Oct 11, 6 AM ET
Newsmax
Poland's Police Warn of Possible Attack on PM Donald Tusk Oct 11, 7 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Poland probes possible plot against PM BBC News, 27 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Polish authorities are investigating a reported plot to assassinate Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Oct 11: told by 6 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Poland Donald Tusk Polish security services Prime Minister Defense Minister Prime Minister's Office
🔎 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.