🗞️ Story file #738
Trump administration revokes over 300,000 visas
Oct 21, 1 AM ET to Oct 22, 10 AM ET
- 8outlets carried it
- 🫏1 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
- 1.4 dayson the front pages
- 8front pages at once, at its peak
- 7people retold it online
👣 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 21, 1 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Epoch Times
- Oct 21, 7 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
- Oct 22, 8 AM ETretold online by 7 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (Newsmax)
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Admin Says It Has Revoked Over 300,000 Visas” → “Admin Says It Has Revoked Over 300K Visas”
- Red State (2 wordings): “Trump Administration Drops the Hammer on Visa Violators, Revokes More Than 300,000” → “Trump Administration Drops the Hammer on Visa Violators, Revokes More Than 300,000 Ward Clark”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating
Yahoo News
Over 300,000 visas revoked as crackdown extends beyond unauthorized immigration Oct 21, 6 AM ET
Newsweek
Trump Visa Revocations Surge Past 300,000 as Crackdown Accelerates Oct 21, 7 AM ET
Reuters
Trump administration says it has revoked over 300,000 visas Oct 20, 8 PM ET
The Epoch Times
US Has Revoked More Than 300,000 Visas in Trump’s Second Term Oct 21, 1 AM ET
New York Post
Over 300K visas revoked so far in Trump’s second term, State Department announces Oct 20, 9 AM ET
Newsmax
Trump Admin Says It Has Revoked Over 300,000 Visas Oct 20, 7 PM ET
Red State
Trump Administration Drops the Hammer on Visa Violators, Revokes More Than 300,000 Oct 20, 12 PM ET
The Post Millennial
Over 300,000 visas revoked by State Department for criminal activity during Trump's second term Oct 20, 5 PM ET
📡 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
🧩 How it's being told
The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.
- 🧩 Asleep at the switch
🧶 online
“Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a lawful permanent resident, died in ICE custody after staff allegedly withheld his medication and ignored his pleas for help.” - 🧩 Cruel and unusual
🧶 online
“Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a lawful permanent resident, died in ICE custody after staff allegedly withheld his medication and ignored his pleas for help.” - 🧩 Death in custody
🧶 online
“Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a lawful permanent resident, died in ICE custody after staff allegedly withheld his medication and ignored his pleas for help.”
🧶 Retold online
- Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a lawful permanent resident, died in ICE custody after staff allegedly withheld his medication and ignored his pleas for help. Oct 22: told by 7 people (same issue)
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 154 likes, 90 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 53 likes, 27 reposts
🧩 Death in custody
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Trump administration
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.