🗞️ Story file #906
Rubio urges Cubans to pursue discreet CIA partnership
Oct 24, 2 AM ET to Oct 25, 6 AM ET
- 11outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 3 · 5🐘left · center · right
- 1.2 dayson the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 80 sof TV captions
- 21people retold it online
- 2 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 24, 2 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Hill
- Oct 24, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 24, 8 AM ETretold online by 21 people
- Oct 24, 7 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire
💬 quoted: “Discreet Partnership With The CIA” 5 “Now is the time” 2 “do a little stopover” “failed promises, corruption” “Now Is The Time” 2 “discrete partnership with the CIA” 3 “positive change” “now is the time”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 tells cubans 🐘 rubio urges cubans
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Fox News (2 wordings): “Rubio urges Cubans to work with CIA to bring political change to communist-run island” → “Trump suggests sending Marco Rubio to Cuba to negotiate deal with Havana”
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Rubio Urges Cubans to Work With CIA, But Warns: Be Discreet” → “Rubio Urges Cubans to Work With CIA, Discreetly”
- The Hill (2 wordings): “Rubio floats CIA ‘partnership’ to Cubans tired of ‘failed ...” → “Rubio floats CIA ‘partnership’ to Cubans tired of ‘failed promises, corruption’”
Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Marco Rubio Very Publicly Tells Cubans To Form ‘Discreet Partnership With The CIA’ Oct 24, 5 PM ET
The Guardian
Rubio tells Cubans ‘now is the time’ to act to see political change Oct 23, 9 PM ET
CBS News
Rubio calls on Cubans seeking "positive change" to work with CIA Oct 24, 12 PM ET
Fortune
Trump suggests U.S. warships ‘do a little stopover’ in Cuba after Iran war, while Rubio pushes Cubans toward a ‘discrete partnership with the CIA’ Oct 24, 12 PM ET
Reuters
Marco Rubio calls on those seeking change in Cuba to partner with CIA Oct 23, 11 PM ET
The Hill
Rubio floats CIA ‘partnership’ to Cubans tired of ‘failed ... Oct 24, 2 AM ET
Just the News
After Trump floats military option, Rubio urges Cubans seeking change to work discreetly with CIA Oct 23, 7 PM ET
Fox News
Rubio urges Cubans to work with CIA to bring political change to communist-run island Oct 23, 8 PM ET
Newsmax
Rubio Urges Cubans to Work With CIA, But Warns: Be Discreet Oct 23, 9 PM ET
OAN
‘Now is the time’: Rubio asks Cubans to enter discreet ‘partnership’ with CIA Oct 24, 7 PM ET
The Daily Caller
‘Now Is The Time’: Rubio Openly Urges Cuban Dissidents To Pursue ‘Discreet Partnership With The CIA’ Oct 24, 10 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- RUBIO: "NOW IS THE TIME" FOR CHANGE IN CUBA CNN, 69 s
- RUBIO URGES CUBANS TO PARTNER WITH CIA Fox News, 11 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Marco Rubio is urging Cubans to work with the CIA to overthrow the Cuban government. Oct 24: told by 21 people
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 14 likes, 5 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 3 likes, 1 reposts
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Marco Rubio Cuba Cubans CIA Havana
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Trump and Rubio urge CIA partnership with Cubans
Trump vows to address Cuba after Iran
Oct 23, 10 PM ET
Rubio urges Cubans to pursue discreet CIA partnership (this story)
Oct 24, 2 AM ET