Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo surpass 10,000

🗞️ Story file #1021

Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo surpass 10,000

Oct 27, 2 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏3 · 2 · 4🐘left · center · right
16 hourson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
7 minof TV captions
11people retold it online

👣 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, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 27, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Epoch Times
Oct 27, 8 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 11 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 2 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Ebola outbreak surpasses 10,000 cases in Congo as deaths near 5,000” → “Ebola outbreak surpasses 10,000 cases in Congo”

Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating