BND - Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device had apparent Saudi government support

🗞️ Story file #650

Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device had apparent Saudi government support

Oct 19, 1 PM ET to Oct 19, 6 PM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏3 · 3 · 3🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak
2 of 3parts 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 19, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
Oct 19, 3 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 1 PM to Oct 19, 6 PM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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: Google News

💬 quoted: “what appears to be considerable support” “Saudi needs you more!”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 saudi government

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

BBC (2 wordings): “Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting device had Saudi support says court filing” → “Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting device had Saudi support, says court filing”

Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating