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Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz faces new sex trafficking lawsuit

Oct 15, 4 PM ET to Oct 15, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

18outlets carried it
🫏9 · 3 · 5🐘left · center · right
1 houron 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 15, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Politico
Oct 15, 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 15, 4 PM to Oct 15, 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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Jane Doe Strikes Again!”

Every outlet's first headline (18), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Former Rep. Matt Gaetz Accused Of Sex Trafficking Women In New Lawsuit: Report Oct 15, 1 PM ET
MSNBC Matt Gaetz being sued for alleged sex trafficking and drug scheme Oct 15, 2 PM ET
Raw Story Disgraced ex-GOP congressman faces explosive new sex trafficking lawsuit Oct 15, 1 PM ET
The Guardian Matt Gaetz accused in suit of sex trafficking two women in Florida Oct 15, 2 PM ET
The New Republic Matt Gaetz Accused of Sex Trafficking in New Lawsuit Oct 15, 2 PM ET
AP Lawsuit by 2 women accuses ex-Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz of sex trafficking Oct 15, 5 PM ET
Mediaite Gaetz Accused of Sex Trafficking in Explosive Lawsuit... Oct 15, 2 PM ET
Politico 2 women accuse Matt Gaetz of sex trafficking in new lawsuit Oct 15, 4 PM ET
The Independent Trump’s first attorney general pick Matt Gaetz named as defendant in civil suit alleging sex trafficking Oct 15, 4 PM ET
Forbes Matt Gaetz Accused Of Sex Trafficking In Florida Lawsuit, Report Says Oct 15, 4 PM ET
Newsweek Trump Ally Matt Gaetz to Confront Sex Trafficking Accusers Amid New Lawsuit Oct 15, 4 PM ET
Tampa Bay Times Ex-Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz accused in suit of sex trafficking young women • News comment Oct 15, 5 PM ET
Just the News Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz accused of sex trafficking in new federal lawsuit Oct 15, 4 PM ET
Washington Examiner Matt Gaetz faces lawsuit over alleged sex trafficking scheme Oct 15, 6 PM ET
New York Post Matt Gaetz accused of sex trafficking while still in Congress by 2 women in new lawsuit Oct 15, 5 PM ET
The Daily Wire Disgraced Congressman Matt Gaetz Hit With Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Oct 15, 4 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit “Jane Doe Strikes Again!” – Matt Gaetz Responds to New Sex Trafficking Lawsuit From Anonymous Accusers Oct 15, 5 PM ET
The Washington Sun Matt Gaetz Faces New Lawsuit Over Alleged Sex Trafficking Scheme Oct 15, 4 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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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: Matt Gaetz Florida Federal Bureau of Investigation Congress of the United States

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.