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🗞️ Story file #843

Federal filing reveals ilhan omar's alias and name history

Oct 22, 6 PM ET to Oct 23, 11 AM 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 22, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  2. Oct 22, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: Red State
  3. Oct 22, 9 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 22, 9 PMOct 233 AM6 AM9 AM48centerright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 6 PM to Oct 23, 11 AM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: center · right
Oct 226 AM12 PM6 PMOct 236 AMThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 21, 9:00 PM ET: Is 'Ilhan Omar' a Fake Name? New Court Filing Identifying Omar's Alias Has Americans Questioning Her Real NameNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 22, 6:00 AM ET: Ilhan Omar investigation appears focused on immigration fraud, ex-DOJ lawyer saysTownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 22, 8:00 AM ET: Ilhan Omar The Ilhan Omar Search Warrant Reveals Something Interesting About Her Name Matt VespaThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 22, 10:00 AM ET: ICYMI: Explosive 2019 Investigation Lays Out Ilhan Omar’s Web of Aliases, Family Name Games, and Birth-Year Switch — Questions That Are Now Under Federal ScrutinyThe Daily SignalThe Daily SignalThe Daily Signal, Oct 22, 11:00 AM ET: Breaking Down the Ilhan Omar InvestigationBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 22, 1:00 PM ET: Feds Refer to Rep. Ilhan Omar as 'Ilhan Nur Said Elmi' in Latest FilingThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 22, 5:00 PM ET: Ilhan Omar’s REAL Name Revealed In Explosive DOJ FilingNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 22, 5:00 PM ET: Ilhan Omar isn’t ‘Squad’ rep’s real name, feds’ bombshell docs revealNew York Post, Oct 22, 7:00 PM ET: Ilhan Omar isn’t ‘Squad’ rep’s real name as feds’ bombshell docs give huge clue she did marry brotherRed StateRed StateRed State, Oct 22, 8:00 PM ET: New Reports on DOJ Filing Indicate More Trouble May Be Headed Ilhan Omar's Way📺 TVFox News, 6:20 PM ET: FEDERAL CORRUPTION CASE
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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi” “Ilhan Omar” “Squad” “real name”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • New York Post (2 wordings): “Ilhan Omar isn’t ‘Squad’ rep’s real name, feds’ bombshell docs reveal” → “Ilhan Omar isn’t ‘Squad’ rep’s real name as feds’ bombshell docs give huge clue she did marry brother”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News15 s
  • FEDERAL CORRUPTION CASE Fox News, 15 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Benny Johnson 📺 Timcast IRL 🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show

🃏 The Babylon Bee The Babylon Bee The Babylon Bee The Babylon Bee

🧶 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.

  • 🧩 The impostor 🫏 3 left shows ⚖️ 1 center show 🐘 7 right shows
    ↔️ its answer: Crystal ball
    “Ilhan Omar committed fraud by using a different name to get elected and sworn into Congress.” and 4 more

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Ilhan Omar Justice Department Squad

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 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.