🗞️ Story file #491
Zelenskyy says he feels betrayed after Trump’s diesel deal with Russia
Oct 14, 6 PM ET to Oct 15, 11 AM ET
- 3outlets carried it
- 🫏1 · 0 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 17 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 3 minof TV captions
- 7people retold it online
- 10 of 12parts 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 14, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 14, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
- Oct 14, 6 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 15, 4 AM ETretold online by 7 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report
💬 quoted: “Painful” “people will die” “PUTIN IS LAUGHING” “Right Side of History” “diesel deal will bring more death” “VLAD'S LAUGHING”
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- The Sun (2 wordings): “'VLAD'S LAUGHING' Trump's betrayed us, Zelensky says as 'diesel deal will bring more death'” → “'PUTIN IS LAUGHING' Trump BETRAYED us, Zelensky slams – saying 'people will die' after Starshield cut off leaving Ukraine at mercy of strikes”
Every outlet's first headline (3), left to right by AllSides rating
NBC News
Zelenskyy says he feels betrayed after Trump’s diesel deal with Russia Oct 14, 3 PM ET
The Sun
'VLAD'S LAUGHING' Trump's betrayed us, Zelensky says as 'diesel deal will bring more death' Oct 14, 4 PM ET
New York Post
Zelensky says Trump betrayed Ukraine with Russian diesel deal Oct 14, 6 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Zelensky feels 'betrayed' by Trump BBC News, 3 min
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Vladimir Putin controls Donald Trump and uses him to serve Russian interests. Oct 15: told by 7 people (same issue); told before on Oct 17, Oct 11, Oct 11, Oct 11, Oct 10
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Ukraine Donald Trump Volodymyr Zelenskyy Russia Putin Trump's Diesel Deal with Russia
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🧵 Persistence
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Zelenskyy says he feels betrayed after Trump’s diesel deal with Russia (this story)
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