North Korea releases photos of Kim Jong Un after death rumors

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North Korea releases photos of Kim Jong Un after death rumors

Oct 20, 11 AM ET to Oct 21, 5 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏1 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
1.3 dayson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
9people retold it online
2fact-checks

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Oct 20, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Times
Oct 20, 2 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 21, 8 AM ETretold online by 9 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 20, 11 AM to Oct 21, 5 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.

💬 quoted: “proof of life”

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Townhall (2 wordings): “Is Kim Jong Un Dead? Wild Rumors About the North Korean Dictator Are Spreading Online.” → “Is Kim Jong Un Dead? Wild Rumors About the North Korean Dictator Are Spreading Online. Dmitri Bolt”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “North Korea releases photos of Kim Jong Un after viral death rumors” → “North Korea releases photos of Kim Jong Un at clothing expo after viral death rumors”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

The Daily Beast Kim Jong Un Resurfaces After Wild Death Rumors Oct 20, 2 PM ET
BBC North Korea publishes photos of Kim Jong Un - why do rumours of his death keep coming back? Oct 20, 9 AM ET
Newsweek Kim Jong Un Pictured As Unfounded Health Rumors Spread Online Oct 20, 10 AM ET
The Sun NOT LAY-UN LOW North Korea shares pics of Kim as 'proof of life' after rumours tyrant died THE North Korean tyrant's last appearance before the latest batch of pictures was made at a weapons museum on October 11. Oct 20, 6 AM ET
The Washington Times North Korean outlet issues proof-of-life photos of Kim Jong-un Oct 20, 11 AM ET
Washington Examiner North Korea releases photos of Kim Jong Un after viral death rumors Oct 20, 12 AM ET
New York Post Shop till you drop Kim Jong Un ‘proof of life’ photos released by North Korea after wild rumors dictator died from brain hemorrhage Oct 19, 10 PM ET
Townhall Is Kim Jong Un Dead? Wild Rumors About the North Korean Dictator Are Spreading Online. Oct 20, 11 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

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🧩 Greatly exaggerated 🧶 online
“Kim Jong Un died of a brain hemorrhage in Beijing.”
🧩 The ailing king 🧶 online
“Kim Jong Un died of a brain hemorrhage in Beijing.”

🧶 Retold online

Kim Jong Un died of a brain hemorrhage in Beijing. Oct 21: told by 9 people; told before on Oct 20

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: North Korea Kim Jong Un North Korean outlet

what the fact-checkers looked into

the running story it belongs to

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