🗞️ Story file #1006
Two British men charged over alleged Iran-linked plot at US-run military base
Oct 27, 7 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET
- 16outlets carried it
- 🫏6 · 4 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 23 hourson the front pages
- 16front pages at once, at its peak
- 23 minof TV captions
- 2radio newscasts
- 8people retold it online
- 7 of 7parts of a saga
👣 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.
- Oct 27, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Oct 27, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 27, 8 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 27, 5 PM ETpeak: on 16 front pages
- Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 8 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (CNN)
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “foreign intelligence service”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 helping iran 🐘 suspected plot
✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- BBC (2 wordings): “Two men charged under National Security Act after RAF Fairford incident” → “Two charged over alleged plot to assist Iran in RAF Fairford incident”
- CNBC (2 wordings): “Man charged with assisting ‘foreign intelligence service’ after incident at UK base used for Iran strikes” → “Man charged with assisting foreign intelligence after UK airbase incident”
- CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Two men charged in UK with helping Iran over Fairford airbase incident” → “Two British men charged with helping Iran over Fairford airbase incident”
- NBC News (2 wordings): “2 men charged with with helping Iran over incident at U.S.-run military base in Britain” → “2 men charged with helping Iran over incident at U.S.-run military base in Britain”
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “2 Men Charged with UK National Security Offenses over Incident at US-run Military Base in England” → “UK Charges 2 Over Suspected Plot at US Air Base”
- Reuters (2 wordings): “Two men charged in UK with helping Iran over RAF Fairford incident” → “Two men charged in UK over RAF Fairford incident allegedly linked to Iran”
- The Washington Times (2 wordings): “U.K. authorities charge two men in connection with alleged plot to attack RAF Fairford” → “Two British nationals charged in air base terror plot; authorities say one suspect linked to Iran”
Every outlet's first headline (16), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
2 Men Charged With U.K. National Security Offenses Over Incident At U.S.-Run Military Base In England Oct 27, 7 AM ET
CBS News
U.K. charges 2 men linked to alleged terror plot against air base Oct 27, 8 AM ET
CNBC
Man charged with assisting ‘foreign intelligence service’ after incident at UK base used for Iran strikes Oct 27, 7 AM ET
CNN
Breaking News Two men charged in UK with helping Iran over Fairford airbase incident Oct 27, 7 AM ET
Military.com
2 Men Charged with UK National Security Offenses over Incident at US-Run Military Base in England Oct 27, 8 AM ET
NBC News
2 men charged with with helping Iran over incident at U.S.-run military base in Britain Oct 27, 6 AM ET
BBC
Two men charged under National Security Act after RAF Fairford incident Oct 27, 6 AM ET- Financial Times Two British men charged over plot at RAF Fairford Oct 27, 8 AM ET
Reuters
Two men charged in UK with helping Iran over RAF Fairford incident Oct 27, 7 AM ET
The Hill
UK charges 2 British men over security incident at US-operated air base Oct 27, 5 PM ET
Just the News
U.K. charges two men arrested over alleged Iran-linked terror plot against air base used by U.S. Oct 27, 1 PM ET
The Epoch Times
2 Men Charged in UK Over Military Base Incident Allegedly Linked to Iran Oct 27, 4 PM ET
The Washington Times
U.K. authorities charge two men in connection with alleged plot to attack RAF Fairford Oct 27, 10 AM ET
Washington Examiner
British national charged with assisting foreign intelligence in RAF Fairford incident Oct 27, 10 AM ET
New York Post
2 men charged with UK national security offenses over suspected plot at US-run military base Oct 27, 11 AM ET
Newsmax
2 Men Charged with UK National Security Offenses over Incident at US-run Military Base in England Oct 27, 7 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Two men charged over RAF Fairford incident BBC News, 14 min
- Two appear in court over RAF Fairford incident BBC News, 5 min
- Two men appear in court over RAF Fairford incident BBC News, 2 min
- 2 BRITISH MEN CHARGED WITH HELPING IRAN OVER FAIRFORD AIRBASE INCIDENT CNN, 56 s
- 2 MEN CHARGED IN SUSPECTED UK AIRBASE TERROR PLOT Fox News, 29 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 27, 11:10 AM ET: story 4 of 8
- NPR News Now, Oct 27, 8:10 AM ET: story 5 of 7
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Two British men were charged in connection with an alleged Iranian intelligence plot at RAF Fairford. Oct 28: told by 8 people; told before on Oct 21, Oct 7, Oct 7, Oct 6, Oct 5
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Iran RAF Fairford Royal Air Force U.S. military
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
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Oct 6, 10 AM ET
UK says Iran's IRGC likely directed airbase incident
Oct 12, 1 PM ET
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Oct 20, 2 PM ET
Two British men charged over alleged Iran-linked plot at US-run military base (this story)
Oct 27, 7 AM ET