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🗞️ Story file #1034

Police called to youth soccer game over dispute involving 3-year-old player

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: The Washington Times
  2. Oct 27, 8 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
  3. Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 12 people

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 27, 6 PM8 PM10 PMOct 282 AM4 AM6 AM49leftright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 4 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · right
Oct 26, 6 PMOct 276 AM12 PM6 PMOct 286 AMHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 26, 2:00 PM ET: Police Were Called On A 3-Year-Old’s Soccer Game, Leaving Him ‘Traumatized,’ Mother SaysCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 26, 10:00 PM ET: Video of police being called to youth soccer game draws outrageNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 26, 11:00 PM ET: Police bodycam footage reveals tense scene over removal of ‘too good’ 3-year-old soccer playerThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 27, 9:00 AM ET: Police called to game after parents say three-year-old benched for being too goodNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 27, 10:00 AM ET: Florida police called to youth soccer game after alleged dispute involving 3-year-old playerThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 27, 4:00 PM ET: Orlando-area cops called to children's soccer game over dispute between family, officialsABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 27, 6:00 PM ET: Mom of 3-year-old speaks out after police called over dispute at youth soccer gameBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 27, 7:00 PM ET: Parents’ Claim Cops Were Called on Three-Year-Old Soccer Player for Being ‘Too Good’ DebunkedBreitbart, Oct 27, 8:00 PM ET: WATCH: Parents' Claim Cops Were Called on 3-Yr-Old Soccer Player DebunkedBreitbart, Oct 27, 9:00 PM ET: WATCH: Florida Parents’ Claim Cops Were Called on Three-Year-Old Soccer Player for Being ‘Too Good’ DebunkedLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times, Oct 27, 8:00 PM ET: Were Florida police called over a 3-year-old’s soccer skills? Here’s what police body cams show🧶 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: “Too Good” 2 “Traumatized,” “too good”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (3 wordings): “Parents’ Claim Cops Were Called on Three-Year-Old Soccer Player for Being ‘Too Good’ Debunked” → “WATCH: Florida Parents’ Claim Cops Were Called on Three-Year-Old Soccer Player for Being ‘Too Good’ Debunked”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Ben Shapiro

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • Police were called to a youth soccer game after a dispute involving a 3-year-old player and his parents. Oct 28: told by 12 people

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

🗣️ names in it: Florida Parents Police Youth Soccer Game 3-Year-Old

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.