🗞️ Story file #538
Saudi officials accuse Iran of encouraging Houthi attacks
Oct 15, 9 PM ET to Oct 16, 11 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 1 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 14 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 1 of 2parts 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 15, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Breitbart
- Oct 15, 9 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (PBS NewsHour)
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (3 wordings): “LIVE Saudis Accuse Iran Of Encouraging Houthi Attacks On Riyadh” → “4 Saudis Accuse Iran Of Encouraging Houthi Attacks On Riyadh”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating
AP
Saudi diplomat says Iran encourages Houthi escalation of attacks on the kingdom Oct 15, 8 PM ET
CBS News
How Iran made the Houthis into such a problem Oct 13, 11 AM ET
PBS NewsHour
Saudi diplomat says Iran is encouraging Houthi escalation of attacks on the kingdom Oct 15, 8 PM ET
Reuters
How the Houthis are helping Iran turn Saudi Arabia into a pressure point Oct 15, 11 AM ET
Breitbart
Saudis Accuse Iran-Backed Houthi Terrorists of Attacking Islam’s Holy City of Medina Oct 15, 9 PM ET
RFE/RL
LIVE Saudis Accuse Iran Of Encouraging Houthi Attacks On Riyadh Oct 15, 12 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Saudi Arabia Iran Houthi Riyadh Medina
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
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