Federal judge orders removal of three taxpayer-funded Trump administration ads

🗞️ Story file #1206

Federal judge orders removal of three taxpayer-funded Trump administration ads

Oct 31, 11 AM ET to Nov 1, 11 AM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏3 · 1 · 4🐘left · center · right
1 dayon the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
8 sof TV captions
1radio newscast
6people retold it online

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Oct 31, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Post
Oct 31, 12 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 31, 7 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 31, 9 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 2, 6 AM ETretold online by 6 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 11 AM to Nov 1, 11 AM ET (peak 8), 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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. 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

“Lawless Order”1
“propaganda”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

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

The Washington Times (2 wordings): “Judge orders Trump to pull ads blasting Democrats, socialism from social media, federal websites” → “Judge tells Trump to pull ads blasting Dems”

📰 Every outlet's headline 8left to right by AllSides rating

PBS NewsHour🕒 Oct 30, 7 PM ET Judge orders 3 taxpayer-funded Trump administration ads to be pulled from TV, social media
The Independent🕒 Oct 28, 2 PM ET Trump barred from airing White House ‘propaganda’ ads, judge rules
The Washington Post🕒 Oct 31, 11 AM ET Judge blocks Trump administration from airing 3 taxpayer-funded ads
Bloomberg🕒 Oct 30, 5 PM ET Judge Expands Block of Pro-Trump Taxpayer Supported Ads
Just the News🕒 Oct 31, 10 AM ET Judge orders Trump admin to pull 3 taxpayer-funded ads
The Washington Times🕒 Oct 31, 12 PM ET Judge orders Trump to pull ads blasting Democrats, socialism from social media, federal websites
Newsmax🕒 Oct 30, 5 PM ET Judge Blocks 3 Taxpayer-Funded Trump Admin Ads
The Gateway Pundit🕒 Oct 31, 11 AM ET Biden-Appointed Judge ORDERS Trump Administration to REMOVE Three Trump Ads Just DAYS Before Midterm Elections — White House BLASTS “Lawless Order” Targeting Patriotic Videos

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

leans left
right

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

🐘 Fox News 8 s

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

🫏 NPR News Now 1× · best #3

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Dear Leader 🧶 online
“The Social Security Administration and the IRS sent emails praising Trump days before the midterms, said to violate the Hatch Act.”
🧩 Hatch Act 🧶 online
“The Social Security Administration and the IRS sent emails praising Trump days before the midterms, said to violate the Hatch Act.”
🧩 Misusing public funds 🧶 online
“The Social Security Administration and the IRS sent emails praising Trump days before the midterms, said to violate the Hatch Act.”
🧩 Taking credit 🧶 online
↔️ its answer: The buck stops here
“The Social Security Administration and the IRS sent emails praising Trump days before the midterms, said to violate the Hatch Act.”

🧶 Retold online

The Social Security Administration and the IRS sent emails praising Trump days before the midterms, said to violate the Hatch Act. Nov 2: told by 6 people (same issue)

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

🗣️ Names in it

Donald TrumpWhite HouseBidenTrump administrationTaxpayers

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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