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🗞️ Story file #1031

Trump vows to ban use of term 'artificial intelligence'

Oct 27, 4 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 27, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Oct 27, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
  3. Oct 27, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
  4. Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 10 people

📰 Spread

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 4 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 27, 3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 283 AM6 AMThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET: Trump will ban everyone from using phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ReutersReutersReuters, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET: Trump says he will ban term artificial intelligenceMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET: Trump Vows to Officially Ban the Term Artificial Intelligence ‘in All Relevant Documents, and Everything Else’NewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 27, 3:00 PM ET: Trump Vows to Ban 'Artificial Intelligence' TermNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 27, 4:00 PM ET: Donald Trump Moves to Ban Term ‘AI’: List of Words President Has BannedThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 27, 4:00 PM ET: Trump to ban use of terms 'AI,' 'artificial intelligence' in federal materialsHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 27, 4:00 PM ET: Trump Claims He’ll Soon Officially Ban The Term ‘Artificial Intelligence’HuffPost, Oct 27, 5:00 PM ET: Trump Makes Extreme Demand Regarding His Hated Term 'Artificial Intelligence'📺 TVCNN, 10:30 PM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE WILL BAN THE TERM "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"CNN, 3:30 AM ET: TRUMP SAYS HE WILL BAN THE TERM "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
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.

💬 quoted: “Artificial Intelligence” 4 “AI” 2 “in All Relevant Documents, and Everything Else” “artificial intelligence” 4

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • HuffPost (2 wordings): “Trump Claims He’ll Soon Officially Ban The Term ‘Artificial Intelligence’” → “Trump Makes Extreme Demand Regarding His Hated Term 'Artificial Intelligence'”
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN25 s
  • TRUMP SAYS HE WILL BAN THE TERM "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" CNN, 25 s

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • Donald Trump wants to ban the term 'artificial intelligence' in federal documents to promote the term 'super intelligence.' Oct 28: told by 10 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Artificial Intelligence

🔎 Checking

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🧵 Persistence

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