🧩 The motif map
The aisle: the stories each side tells
- 602motifs the shows told
- 255told on both sides
- 37answers across the aisle
⚠️ Stories people tell, not claims that they're true.
Each dot is a motif from our index: the shape of a story as people tell it. It sits left or right by which side's shows its claims came up on (told, reported or argued against: we don't yet mark which), and higher the more it was told. An arc joins a story to its usual answer.
🔥 Rising this week
told at least twice as often in the last 7 days as in the 7 before
🧩 The family business 10 → 42 🧩 They're going to steal it 10 → 33 🧩 Rigged election 6 → 25 🧩 Own goal 3 → 22 🧩 Funding conspiracy 3 → 19 🧩 Graft 9 → 18 🧩 Polls are manipulated 6 → 18 🧩 Sports 4 → 16 🧩 Solution in search of a problem 1 → 16 🧩 Brotherhood candidate 8 → 16 🧩 Executive overreach 4 → 14 🧩 War for votes 6 → 14
🧊 Fading
told a third as often or less this week
🧩 Camp of the Saints 20 → 3 🧩 Immigration as infiltration 13 → 2 🧩 Tail wags the dog 11 → 2 🧩 Targeting minorities 10 → 3 🧩 They're out of control 10 → 3 🧩 Transing children 9 → 2 🧩 Manufacturing consent 8 → 0 🧩 Bromance 8 → 2 🧩 Exploiting the poor 6 → 0 🧩 Price gouging 6 → 0 🧩 It can happen here 6 → 0 🧩 Rich should pay their fair share 5 → 1
⚖️ Told on both sides
the most shows on each side
🧩 Lawfare 🧩 Political party surge 🧩 The family business 🧩 The ailing king 🧩 Political realignment 🧩 Misusing public funds 🧩 It's the economy, stupid 🧩 Electability 🧩 Class conflict 🧩 Funding conspiracy 🧩 Political retaliation 🧩 Intimidation
🫏 Mostly left
🧩 Senile leader 🧩 Caligula 🧩 Kleptocracy 🧩 Whose side are you on anyway? 🧩 Data center panic 🧩 The backdoor 🧩 Executive overreach 🧩 Dead weight president
🐘 Mostly right
🧩 The enemy of all mankind 🧩 Guilt by association 🧩 Lied on a form 🧩 Manchurian candidate 🧩 Radical left 🧩 Polls are inaccurate 🧩 Proven record 🧩 Foreign meddling
369 more motifs were told only online, by fact-checkers or by voters, not on the shows: they're in the index.