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πŸ—žοΈ Story file #1039

Door dash in talks to acquire Instacart in potential 17 billion deal

Oct 27, 5 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET

πŸ‘£ 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, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: Los Angeles Times
  2. Oct 27, 5 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

πŸ“° Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 27, 6 PM8 PM10 PMOct 282 AM4 AM6 AM36leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 5 PM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left Β· center Β· right
Oct 26, 6 PMOct 276 AM12 PM6 PMOct 286 AMSemaforSemaforSemafor, Oct 26, 4:00 PM ET: DoorDash in exclusive talks to acquire InstacartReutersReutersReuters, Oct 26, 5:00 PM ET: DoorDash in talks to buy Instacart in roughly $17 billion deal, source saysNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 26, 5:00 PM ET: DoorDash in Talks to Buy Instacart for $17 BillionNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 26, 8:00 PM ET: DoorDash in talks to buy delivery rival Instacart in $17B deal: reportJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 26, 8:00 PM ET: DoorDash reportedly in talks to acquire Instacart in potential $17 billion dealLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times, Oct 27, 5:00 PM ET: DoorDash soon could acquire grocery delivery service Instacart
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.
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

πŸ“‘ Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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🧢 Retelling

what people online made of it

πŸ¦— Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

πŸ—£οΈ names in it: DoorDash Instacart

πŸ”Ž 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.