Philippines investigates Meghan markle's father over child sex abuse images

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Philippines investigates Meghan markle's father over child sex abuse images

Oct 25, 7 PM ET to Oct 26, 11 AM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏3 · 0 · 4🐘left · center · right
16 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
2 of 4parts of a saga

📰 read it at: Salon The Guardian The Independent The Sun IJR New York Post Newsmax

👣 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 25, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
Oct 26, 6 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 25, 7 PM to Oct 26, 11 AM ET (peak 7), 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

“possible sex offender of the grossest kind”3
“sex offender of grossest kind”2
“abuse images”1

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

🗣️ Only one side says

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nothing of its own

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abuse images
child sex

phrases three or more outlets on one side used and none on the other

📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating

Salon🕒 Oct 25, 12 PM ET Philippine police: Meghan Markle’s dad may be offender “of the grossest kind”
The Guardian🕒 Oct 25, 6 AM ET Signs suggest Thomas Markle Sr may be ‘sex offender of the grossest kind’, says Philippine minister
The Independent🕒 Oct 26, 6 AM ET Meghan’s father may be ‘sex offender of grossest kind’, Philippine official says as police probe laptop
The Sun🕒 Oct 25, 11 AM ET CHILD SEX PROBE All signs suggest Thomas Markle Snr may be 'sex offender of grossest kind', says minister – as cops trawl 'abuse images'
IJR🕒 Oct 23, 12 PM ET Thomas Markle denies child abuse images as Philippines investigates
New York Post🕒 Oct 25, 7 PM ET Thomas Markle’s home had trove of child porn — as official calls him ‘possible sex offender of the grossest kind’
Newsmax🕒 Oct 23, 11 AM ET Philippines Probes Meghan Markle's Father Over Child Sex Abuse Images

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

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

PhilippinesThomas MarkleMeghan MarklePhilippine policePhilippine governmentPhilippine minister

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Meghan Markle father case

Met police confirm letter about megan's father was not shared with other forces
Oct 24, 2 PM ET
Philippines investigates Meghan markle's father over child sex abuse images (this story)
Oct 25, 7 PM ET
UK police confirm receipt of letter alleging child sex abuse against megan Markle's father
Oct 23, 7 AM ET
Meghan Markle's father arrested on child pornography charges
Nov 6, 11 AM ET

Philippines investigates Meghan markle's father over child sex abuse images

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🧵 Meghan Markle father case