🧩 BND Motif Index · M769
Trial by Twitter
Officials are said to act on whatever goes viral, charging, firing or condemning to meet the online outrage, ahead of the facts or the law.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Crime and punishment🗂️ Online life
- 2claims filed under it
- 1right show it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Sentence first, verdict afterwards
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-09 “Because the Cornell case went viral, New York's Democrats will charge the seven students whether or not the rule of law allows it.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-05 “The decision to bring charges against the Cornell seven is a miscarriage of justice.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton
M769 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-13 · what this is · how the index works