🗞️ Story file #708
Two men rearrested over suspected Iran involvement in UK air base incident
Oct 20, 2 PM ET to Oct 20, 7 PM ET
- 11outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 5 hourson the front pages
- 11front pages at once, at its peak
- 5 minof TV captions
- 6 of 6parts 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, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Oct 20, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 20, 6 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 assisting iran 🫏 us-run air
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Two men rearrested on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service in RAF Fairford incident” → “Two men rearrested on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service in RAF Fairford incident”
Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
2 Men Rearrested In UK On Suspicion Of Assisting Iran Over Suspected Plot At A US-Run Air Base Oct 20, 2 PM ET
The Guardian
Two men re-arrested on suspicion of aiding Iran over UK airbase incident Oct 20, 2 PM ET
CBS News
2 men rearrested for alleged spying for Iran in U.K. air base incident Oct 20, 2 PM ET
CNN
Breaking News Two men rearrested on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service in RAF Fairford incident Oct 20, 2 PM ET
Military.com
2 Men Rearrested in UK on Suspicion of Assisting Iran Over Suspected Plot at a US-Run Air Base Oct 20, 2 PM ET
New York Times
The British Police Rearrest Two in Connection With Alleged Terror Plot Oct 20, 5 PM ET- Financial Times Police rearrest two men over RAF Fairford incident Oct 20, 2 PM ET
Reuters
UK police arrest pair on suspicion of helping Iranian intelligence over RAF Fairford incident Oct 20, 2 PM ET
IJR
Two Men Re-arrested on Suspicion of Assisting Iranian Intelligence Near RAF Fairford Oct 20, 3 PM ET
Newsmax
2 Men Rearrested in UK for Alleged US Air Base Plot Oct 20, 2 PM ET
The Daily Caller
UK Re-Arrests RAF Fairford Suspects, Alleges They Are Foreign Intelligence Assets Oct 20, 6 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- TRUMP'S IRAN WAR CAUSED CHAOTIC NAVY BASE MSNOW, 2 min
- TRUMP'S IRAN WAR CAUSES CHAOTIC NAVY BASE EVACUATION MSNOW, 2 min
- Police say airbase re-arrests related to Iran BBC News, 64 s
- Two re-arrested over UK-US airbase incident BBC News, 40 s
🧶 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: Iran Royal Air Force RAF Fairford
🔎 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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Oct 4, 6 PM ET
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Oct 6, 10 AM ET
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Oct 12, 1 PM ET
Two men rearrested over suspected Iran involvement in UK air base incident (this story)
Oct 20, 2 PM ET