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Far-left activist arrested after historic town hall fire in limoges

Oct 19, 10 AM ET to Oct 20, 8 PM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 20, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Gateway Pundit
  2. Oct 20, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 19, 12 PM6 PMOct 206 AM12 PM6 PM47leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 10 AM to Oct 20, 8 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 18, 12 PMOct 1912 PMOct 2012 PMFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 17, 8:00 PM ET: Limoges Town Hall 'largely lost' after far-left rioters set historic building on fire amid French unrestNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 17, 11:01 PM ET: France’s historic Limoges Town Hall was largely lost to fire during nationwide cost-of-living riots, as police arrested 400 people.New York Post, Oct 20, 11:00 AM ET: Smoke signals Far-left French rioter on national security watchlist busted over fire that gutted historic town hallNew York Post, Oct 20, 4:00 PM ET: Far-left French rioter on national security watchlist busted over fire that gutted historic town hallNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 18, 2:00 PM ET: The French City of Limoges Wasn’t Known for Unrest. Then Rioters Set Fire to Its City Hall.ReutersReutersReuters, Oct 18, 3:00 PM ET: Historic Limoges city hall burns in France cost-of-living protestsBBCBBCBBC, Oct 18, 7:00 PM ET: 'Very upsetting': Residents in shock after historic French town hall set alightBBC, Oct 20, 8:00 AM ET: Suspect arrested after historic town hall set alight - French mediaIJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 19, 3:00 AM ET: Limoges Town Hall Roof Collapses in Fire Amid France ProtestsThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 20, 12:00 PM ET: Suspect Arrested for Burning Down Historic Limoges, France City Hall Identified as “Far-Left” as Officials Admit They “Lost Control” Over RiotsThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Oct 20, 3:00 PM ET: INFERNO ARREST 'Ultra-left' activist accused of torching historic town hall in France riotsBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 20, 4:00 PM ET: Limoges Town Hall Arson Suspect is Known ‘Ultra-Left’ Extremist on Security Watchlist
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.

💬 quoted: “Ultra-Left” 2 “Far-Left” “largely lost” “Lost Control” “Ultra-left” “Very upsetting”

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • BBC (2 wordings): “'Very upsetting': Residents in shock after historic French town hall set alight” → “Suspect arrested after historic town hall set alight - French media”
  • New York Post (3 wordings): “France’s historic Limoges Town Hall was largely lost to fire during nationwide cost-of-living riots, as police arrested 400 people.” → “Far-left French rioter on national security watchlist busted over fire that gutted historic town hall”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧶 Retelling

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: France Limoges Far-Left Rioters French Police France's Nationwide Cost-of-Living Riots Limoges Town Hall

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Paris protests disrupt NFL game

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    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

  3. French student protests continue amid escalating tensions and government response

    Oct 4, 1 PM ET

  4. Greta Thunberg joins French student protests

    Oct 13, 6 PM ET

  5. Protesters rally across France with clashes and looting

    Oct 17, 9 PM ET

  6. French president vows to hold accountable those involved in protests

    Oct 19, 7 AM ET

  7. Protesters block access to Louvre museum in Paris

    Oct 19, 3 PM ET

  8. Far-left activist arrested after historic town hall fire in limoges (this story)

    Oct 19, 10 AM ET

  9. Trump references French riots in midterm campaign

    Oct 18, 1 PM ET

  10. France experiences riots and unrest following fuel price protests

    Oct 17, 11 AM ET

  11. Macron criticizes foreign leaders for 'stupid' comments on French riots

    Oct 21, 10 AM ET

  12. Louvre and other museums close Saturday due to protest concerns

    Oct 23, 11 PM ET

  13. France bans non-union protests amid unrest

    Oct 22, 10 AM ET

  14. French protests see Hundreds arrested, some violence reported

    Oct 24, 10 PM ET

  15. French police use tear gas and water cannons during protests

    Oct 19, 9 AM ET

  16. NFL cancels Paris fan event amid protests

    Oct 20, 10 AM ET

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