🗞️ Story file #697
Attacker identified after car rammed MP
Oct 20, 12 PM ET to Oct 20, 12 PM ET
- 2outlets carried it
- 🫏0 · 1 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 1 houron 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 20, 12 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “ATTACKER REVEALED” “Attacker who rammed MP with car is identified” “targeted”
Every outlet's first headline (2), left to right by AllSides rating
Reuters
The Sun📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺🤷 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: Australia Australian Parliament Australian Prime Minister Australian Federal Lawmaker Driver Suspect
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
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Attacker identified after car rammed MP (this story)
Oct 20, 12 PM ET
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Oct 19, 6 AM ET