🗞️ Story file #915
Elon Musk increases midterm spending for GOP
Oct 24, 10 AM ET to Oct 24, 12 PM ET
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 2 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 2 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 19people 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 24, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: Newsmax
- Oct 24, 10 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 25, 4 AM ETretold online by 19 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating
The Daily Kos
Musk throws more money at GOP in effort to dodge accountability Oct 23, 1 PM ET
Mediaite
Elon Musk Has Pumped Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Into Helping Republicans Win Midterms Oct 22, 11 PM ET
The Independent
Elon Musk throws staggering $445 million at Republicans as midterm disaster looms Oct 24, 9 AM ET
Bloomberg
Musk Giving Tops $445 Million in Final Midterm Push for GOP Oct 23, 11 AM ET
The Hill
Musk ups midterm spending in final stretch Oct 23, 6 PM ET
Newsmax
Musk Boosts Midterm Spending by $77 Million in Final Stretch Oct 24, 10 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
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🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧩 How it's being told
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- 🧩 Daddy Warbucks
🫏 1 left show ⚖️ 3 center shows 🐘 1 right show
↔️ its answer: Owned politician
“Elon Musk is injecting massive amounts of money into Republican campaigns because he fears Democratic victories could jeopardize his federal contracts.” and 1 more - 🧩 Money in politics
🫏 1 left show ⚖️ 1 center show 🐘 1 right show
“Elon Musk is injecting massive amounts of money into Republican campaigns because he fears Democratic victories could jeopardize his federal contracts.” - 🧩 Benedict Arnold
🧶 online
“Elon Musk should be prosecuted for treason, his assets and companies should be nationalized, and he should be deported.” - 🧩 Corporate welfare
🧶 online
“Elon Musk should be prosecuted for treason, his assets and companies should be nationalized, and he should be deported.” - 🧩 Corporatism
🧶 online
“Elon Musk should be prosecuted for treason, his assets and companies should be nationalized, and he should be deported.” - 🧩 Go back where you came from
🧶 online
“Elon Musk should be prosecuted for treason, his assets and companies should be nationalized, and he should be deported.”
🧶 Retold online
- Elon Musk should be prosecuted for treason, his assets and companies should be nationalized, and he should be deported. Oct 25: told by 19 people (same issue); told before on Oct 27, Oct 23, Oct 19, Oct 12
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 6 likes, 1 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 7 likes, 0 reposts
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Elon Musk Republican Party
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