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🗞️ Story file #988

AI model accessed voter data in Georgia

Oct 26, 5 PM ET to Oct 28, 11 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

📰 read it at: Raw Story The Guardian The New Republic Axios News Nation Reuters Scripps News The Hill Fox Business The Epoch Times Breitbart Newsmax The Daily Caller Townhall The Lever

👣 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 26, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Hill
  2. Oct 26, 8 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
  3. Oct 27, 8 AM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
  4. Oct 27, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 26, 6 PMOct 276 AM12 PM6 PMOct 286 AM612leftcenterrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 5 PM to Oct 28, 11 AM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated
Oct 2612 PMOct 2712 PMOct 28AxiosAxiosAxios, Oct 25, 7:00 PM ET: Anthropic model accessed voter informationReutersReutersReuters, Oct 25, 10:00 PM ET: Anthropic's Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind paywallReuters, Oct 26, 10:00 AM ET: EXCLUSIVE: US political candidates tailor messages for AI models used by votersFox BusinessFox BusinessFox Business, Oct 26, 5:00 AM ET: Claude AI accesses voter data 'without being asked,' raising midterm questionsThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 26, 8:00 AM ET: Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in USNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 26, 9:00 AM ET: Candidates Tailor Messages for Voters' AI ToolsThe New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New Republic, Oct 26, 11:00 AM ET: Major AI Bot Spontaneously Accesses Key Swing State’s Voter DataThe Daily CallerThe Daily CallerThe Daily Caller, Oct 26, 12:00 PM ET: Rogue AI Accessed Public Voter Info In Key Swing StateRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 26, 12:00 PM ET: Horror as rogue AI smashes through paywall to grab voter data: ‘Would be a federal crime’BreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 26, 2:00 PM ET: Anthropic’s Claude AI Hacks into Georgia Voter DataBreitbart, Oct 26, 3:00 PM ET: October Surprise : Woke AI Hacks into Red State Voter DataNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 26, 2:00 PM ET: Claude reportedly bypassed paywall to access Georgia voter dataThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 26, 5:00 PM ET: Claude AI reportedly accessed Georgia election data without being askedScripps NewsScripps NewsScripps News, Oct 26, 8:00 PM ET: An AI model accessed voter data in Georgia. Officials say there was no foul playTownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 27, 12:00 PM ET: This Rogue AI Agent Helped Itself to Georgia’s Election Data — and Nobody Told Voters for WeeksTownhall, Oct 27, 1:00 PM ET: This Rogue AI Agent Helped Itself to Georgia’s Election Data — and Nobody Told Voters for WeeksTownhall, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET: This Rogue AI Agent Helped Itself to Georgia’s Election Data — and Nobody Told Voters for WeeksThe LeverThe LeverThe Lever, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET: Political Strategists Are Hacking AI To Influence VotersThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 27, 6:00 PM ET: Georgia Election Official Says Elections Secure After AI Agent Accesses Data📺 TVMSNOW, 8:39 AM ET: AMONG 1,202 REGISTERED VOTERS, OCT. 9-12; +/-2.5%CNN, 2:19 PM ET: CANDIDATES LEAN INTO AI MODELS FOR ELECTION MESSAGINGCNN, 2:19 PM ET: VOTERS TURNING TO AI FOR ADVICE ON WHO TO VOTE FOR IN ELECTIONSCNN, 2:19 PM ET: CANDIDATES LEAN INTO AI MODELS FOR ELECTION MESSAGING. Hadas Gold | CNN AI CorrespondentCNN, 2:20 PM ET: VOTERS TURNING TO AI FOR ADVICE ON WHO TO VOTE FOR IN ELECTIONSCNN, 2:21 PM ET: VOTERS TURNING TO AI FOR ADVICE ON WHO TO VOTE FOR IN ELECTIONSCNN, 2:22 PM ET: VOTERS TURNING TO AI FOR ADVICE ON WHO TO VOTE FOR IN ELECTIONS📻 radioNPR News Now, Oct 27, 9:10 AM ET: story 5 of 6
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

  1. “without being asked,”1
  2. “Would be a federal crime”1

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

🗣️ Only one side says

  • 🫏 left
  • model accessed
  • 🐘 right
  • nothing of its own

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

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (2 wordings): “Anthropic’s Claude AI Hacks into Georgia Voter Data” → “October Surprise : Woke AI Hacks into Red State Voter Data”
  • Reuters (2 wordings): “Anthropic's Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind paywall” → “EXCLUSIVE: US political candidates tailor messages for AI models used by voters”
📰 Every outlet's headline 15left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🫏 CNN 3 min
  2. 🫏 MSNOW 16 s

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

  1. 🫏 NPR News Now 1× · best #5

🎙️ On the shows

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  1. 🐘 Erick Erickson 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

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

  1. 🃏 The Babylon Bee 1

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

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  • 🧩 HAL 9000 🧶 online
    “Anthropic's Claude AI bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without human authorization.”

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

AnthropicGeorgiaClaude AI

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

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