BND - Trump claims massive oil and gas exploration planned in Greenland; Greenland denies the claims

🗞️ Story file #448

Trump claims massive oil and gas exploration planned in Greenland; Greenland denies the claims

Oct 14, 4 AM ET to Oct 14, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

20outlets carried it
🫏8 · 5 · 6🐘left · center · right
14 hourson the front pages
18front pages at once, at its peak

👣 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 14, 4 AM ETfirst on a front page: Newsweek
Oct 14, 6 PM ETpeak: on 18 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 4 AM to Oct 14, 6 PM ET (peak 18), 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.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (CBS News, Newsmax)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Massive” 8 “our new and beautiful Greenland” 6 “Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration” “The island is second to none” “massive” 3 “getting ready to begin” “Our new and beautiful Greenland” 2 “Our”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 trump's claim

✏️ 8 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (3 wordings): “Trump Previews ‘Massive’ Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration in Greenland” → “Drill Baby Drill: Trump Says ‘Massive’ Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration in Greenland Good to Go”
CBS News (2 wordings): “Trump says Greenland oil, gas and mineral exploration "getting ready to begin"” → “Trump says Greenland oil, gas and mineral exploration ready to begin”
CNN (2 wordings): “Trump says ‘massive’ oil and gas drilling is about to begin in Greenland” → “Greenland contradicts Trump’s claim that ‘massive’ oil and gas drilling is about to begin there”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Trump announces 'massive' Greenland exploration plans with national security claims” → “'Our new and beautiful Greenland': Trump announces massive oil exploration plans”
Newsmax (4 wordings): “Trump: 'Massive' Oil, Gas, Mineral Exploration to Begin in Greenland” → “Greenland Disputes Trump's Oil Exploration Claim”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Trump says 'massive' oil, gas and mineral exploration to begin in Greenland” → “Trump says massive oil, gas exploration set to begin in 'our Greenland'”
The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “Trump Says Massive Energy, Mineral Exploration Ready to Start in Greenland” → “Trump Says Massive Energy, Mineral Exploration Ready to Begin in Greenland”
The New Republic (2 wordings): “Greenland Reveals Trump Is Lying Through His Teeth About Oil and Gas” → “Greenland Exposes Trump’s “Massive” Lie on Oil and Gas”