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US envoy Witkoff meets with Putin in St. Petersburg

Oct 22, 8 PM ET to Oct 22, 11 PM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏6 · 0 · 4🐘left · center · right
3 hourson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
10 of 20parts of a saga

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Oct 22, 8 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 8 PM to Oct 22, 11 PM ET (peak 10), by the outlets' lean: left · 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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. 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

“humanitarian”5
“Putin Is Playing President Trump Like a Fiddle”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📰 Every outlet's headline 10left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Oct 21, 1 PM ET Trump’s Ukraine Envoy Faces Backlash For Calling Putin ‘A Humanitarian’
Rolling Stone🕒 Oct 21, 1 PM ET Trump’s Russia Envoy Praises Putin as a Great ‘Humanitarian’
AP🕒 Oct 21, 10 PM ET Putin and US envoy Witkoff meet in St. Petersburg
NBC News🕒 Oct 21, 1 PM ET Sen. Thom Tillis rips Trump envoy Witkoff for calling Putin a ‘humanitarian’
Semafor🕒 Oct 21, 8 AM ET US envoy Steve Witkoff holds talks with Putin
The Independent🕒 Oct 21, 4 PM ET Trump’s special envoy tells Putin he is a ‘humanitarian’
Breitbart🕒 Oct 20, 4 PM ET Sen. Tillis: ‘Putin Is Playing President Trump Like a Fiddle’
IJR🕒 Oct 21, 7 AM ET Witkoff Arrives in St. Petersburg for Putin Talks
New York Post🕒 Oct 21, 10 AM ET Trump envoy Steve Witkoff praises Putin as ‘humanitarian’ as Ukraine peace talks hang in the balance
Newsmax🕒 Oct 21, 6 PM ET Trump Stops Short of Calling Putin 'Humanitarian'

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

center

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🃏 NewsThump 1

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

Vladimir PutinSt. PetersburgThom TillisMichael WitkoffUkraine

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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