🧵 Saga file #94
Middle East oil tensions
Oct 23, 7 PM ET to Oct 27, 8 AM ET
- 2parts so far
- 13outlets carried a part
- 🫏10 · 2 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 3.5 daysrunning so far
- 29 minof TV captions
- 103people 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.
- Oct 23, 7 PM ET · on the front pages 17 hoursOil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions
- Oct 26, 11 AM ET · on the front pages 21 hoursTrump's oil and gas investments gained millions during the Iran war
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Oil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions
Oct 23, 7 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 17 hours
“Brent crude oil tops $116, a six-month high, as Middle East tensions swell” first: CNBC, New York Post
📺 BBC News 86 s, CNN 20 s · 🧶 retold by 19
2. Trump's oil and gas investments gained millions during the Iran war
Oct 26, 11 AM ET · 7 outlets · on the front pages 21 hours
“Trump Brags U.S. Is Making A ‘Fortune’ Off High Gas Prices As Oil Hits Highest Price in Nearly 6 Months” first: HuffPost
📺 CNN 22 min, MSNOW 5 min, Fox News 40 s · 🧶 retold by 84
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-27 ✨ The buck stops here ×1 ✨ Pain at the pump ×1 ✨ War profiteer ×1
- 2026-10-25 ✨ Targeting civilians ×1 ✨ Missile at Mecca ×1
- 2026-10-24 ✨ Oil market instability ×1
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- The Houthis claim to have attacked Saudi oil facilities and airports while denying attacks on Mecca and Medina. told by 8 people, on “Oil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions”
🧩 Missile at Mecca - Oil prices are spiking due to fears of escalating conflict in the Middle East and potential war with Iran. told by 11 people, on “Oil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions”
- Donald Trump started an illegal war with Iran to increase his personal wealth through oil and gas stocks while Americans suffer from high gas prices. told by 84 people, on “Trump's oil and gas investments gained millions during the Iran war”