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🗞️ Story file #656

Senator's sister-in-law on terror watch list

Oct 19, 2 PM ET to Oct 19, 7 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 19, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
  2. Oct 19, 2 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

📰 Spread

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Oct 19, 3 PM4 PM5 PM6 PM7 PM36right
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 2 PM to Oct 19, 7 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: right
Oct 18, 6 PMOct 196 AM12 PM6 PMThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 18, 8:01 AM ET: Yet Another El-Sayed Terror Bombshell: His Sister-in-Law Was on the Terror Watchlist Under Obama - ReportThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 18, 11:00 AM ET: Abdul El-Sayed Admits His Sister-In-Law Landed On Terrorist WatchlistBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 18, 8:00 PM ET: WATCH: Abdul Mohamed El-Sayed Admits Sister-in-Law Was on Terrorist Watch List…Red StateRed StateRed State, Oct 18, 9:00 PM ET: MI Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Wants Us to Forget About Relative Being Named on Terror Watch ListThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 19, 1:00 PM ET: Yet Another El-Sayed Terror Bombshell: His Sister-in-Law Was on the Terror Watchlist Under Obama – ReportNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 19, 2:00 PM ET: WASHINGTON — Far-left Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has acknowledged that his sister-in-law was put on a terrorist watch list but insisted she did nothing wrong and claimed she was taken off it after filing a lawsuit.New York Post, Oct 19, 3:00 PM ET: Far-left Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has acknowledged that his sister-in-law was put on a terrorist watch list but insisted she did nothing wrong and claimed she was taken off it after filing a lawsuit.New York Post, Oct 19, 4:00 PM ET: Law & order Why Obama admin put Abdul El-Sayed’s sister-in-law on terror watch list — as he insists ‘she did nothing wrong’
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: “she did nothing wrong”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • New York Post (3 wordings): “WASHINGTON — Far-left Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has acknowledged that his sister-in-law was put on a terrorist watch list but insisted she did nothing wrong and claimed she was taken off it after filing a lawsuit.” → “Law & order Why Obama admin put Abdul El-Sayed’s sister-in-law on terror watch list — as he insists ‘she did nothing wrong’”
Every outlet's first headline (6), 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: Abdul El-Sayed Michigan Obama Senate

🔎 Checking

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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Abdul El-Sayed Muslim Brotherhood controversy

  1. Abdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission

    Oct 12, 9 PM ET

  2. Abdul El-Sayed confronts voter over Muslim Brotherhood question

    Oct 18, 6 PM ET

  3. Senator's sister-in-law on terror watch list (this story)

    Oct 19, 2 PM ET

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