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🗞️ Story file #919

Trump says U.S. may launch another military operation against Iran

Oct 24, 11 AM ET to Oct 25, 1 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 24, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: Red State
  2. Oct 24, 11 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Oct 24, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 24, 12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PMOct 2536leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 24, 11 AM to Oct 25, 1 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 23, 6 PMOct 246 AM12 PM6 PMOct 25ReutersReutersReuters, Oct 23, 5:00 PM ET: Trump says US may do another military operation against IranNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 23, 5:00 PM ET: Trump says U.S. may launch ‘another little Epic Fury’ if Iran doesn’t agree to a dealNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 23, 5:00 PM ET: Trump: US May Do Another Military Operation Against IranThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 23, 7:00 PM ET: Trump Says US May Do ‘Another Little Epic Fury’ Targeting IranBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 23, 11:00 PM ET: Trump Threatens Iran Strike — ‘We May Do Another Little Epic Fury’Red StateRed StateRed State, Oct 24, 11:00 AM ET: Iran's Kill Plots Reach 'Advanced Stages,' but Trump Has a Message: 'Little Epic Fury' Bob HogeRed State, Oct 24, 11:00 AM ET: Iran's Kill Plots Reach 'Advanced Stages,' but Trump Has a Message: 'Little Epic Fury'📺 TVFox News, 9:36 PM ET: TRUMP WEIGHS NEW IRAN STRIKES
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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (Newsmax)

💬 quoted: “Another Little Epic Fury” 4 “Advanced Stages,”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Red State (2 wordings): “Iran's Kill Plots Reach 'Advanced Stages,' but Trump Has a Message: 'Little Epic Fury' Bob Hoge” → “Iran's Kill Plots Reach 'Advanced Stages,' but Trump Has a Message: 'Little Epic Fury'”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News19 s
  • TRUMP WEIGHS NEW IRAN STRIKES Fox News, 19 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 The Young Turks

🃏 The Onion

🧶 Retelling

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: Iran Donald Trump Bob Hoge Epic Fury Little Epic Fury

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump threatens Iran strike

  1. U.S. military weighs use of 'mother of all bombs' against Iran

    Oct 15, 8 AM ET

  2. Trump says U.S. may launch another military operation against Iran (this story)

    Oct 24, 11 AM ET

  3. U.S. intelligence warns of advanced Iranian plots against Americans

    Oct 24, 1 AM ET