🧵 Saga file #124
Powder sent to officials
Oct 26, 7 PM ET to Nov 3, 3 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 24outlets carried a part
- 🫏10 · 4 · 9🐘left · center · right
- 7.9 daysrunning so far
- 10people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
in the order of their latest news, each in its color on the charts; the bar is the outlets that carried it. 🔴 on the front pages now, 📄 a page of its own, 🗄️ older than a week
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index: each day its most-told, wider for more tellers, colored by genre (✨ new to the saga that day)
- Archetypesa kind of person
- Plotswhat happened
- Beliefsa premise
- Theorieswhat people think is behind it
- Argumentsa move in an argument
- Tue Oct 27 ✨ White powder 1
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- An Illinois man is charged with sending threatening letters containing white powder to members of Congress. told by 10 people, on “Illinois man charged with mailing white powder to Congress members”