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🗞️ Story file #1212

U.S. Embassy warns of mass casualty threat at Moscow museum

Oct 31, 2 PM ET to Nov 1, 5 AM ET

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👣 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 31, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Reuters
  2. Oct 31, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
  3. Oct 31, 11 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
  4. Nov 1, 4 AM ETretold online by 20 people

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 2 PM to Nov 1, 5 AM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 31, 3 PM6 PM9 PMNov 12 AM5 AMFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 31, 12:01 PM ET: US Embassy warns of credible 'mass casualty' threat at Moscow tourist attractionBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 31, 12:01 PM ET: US Embassy Warns of Mass Casualty Threat at Moscow MuseumJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 31, 1:01 PM ET: U.S. Embassy warns of potential mass-casualty threat at Moscow tourist attractionTownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 31, 2:01 PM ET: US Embassy in Russia Issues 'Mass Casualty' Warning in MoscowNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 31, 2:01 PM ET: US Embassy issues rare warning over ‘credible threat’ of ‘mass casualty’ event in MoscowNew York Post, Oct 31, 4:01 PM ET: US Embassy issues rare warning over ‘credible threat’ of imminent ‘mass casualty’ event at tourist hotspot in MoscowNew York Post, Nov 1, 2:01 AM ET: US Embassy issues rare warning over ‘credible threat’ of ‘mass casualty’ event at Russian tourist hotspotNew York Post, Nov 1, 4:01 AM ET: US Embassy issues rare warning over ‘credible threat’ of imminent ‘mass casualty’ event at Russian tourist hotspotThe National DeskThe National DeskThe National Desk, Oct 31, 2:01 PM ET: U.S. Embassy warns of 'credible threat of a mass-casualty event' at Moscow museumIJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 31, 2:01 PM ET: US Embassy warns of Tsaritsyno mass-casualty threatReutersReutersReuters, Oct 31, 2:01 PM ET: FSB says US warned Russia of possible Moscow attackBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 31, 2:01 PM ET: U.S. Embassy Warns of Potential Planned Terror Attack in MoscowRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 31, 3:01 PM ET: Alarm as US embassy in Moscow issues rare 'mass casualties' notice: 'You don't see this'OANOne America News NetworkOne America News Network, Oct 31, 6:01 PM ET: U.S. Embassy warns of possible ‘mass casualty’ threat to historical Moscow tourist attractionThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Oct 31, 11:01 PM ET: 'CREDIBLE THREAT' US Embassy issues urgent warning over 'mass casualty event' at museum📺 TVFox News, 12:32 AM ET: RUSSIA: U.S. WARNED MOSCOW OF TERROR PLOTBBC News, 2:20 PM ET: FSB says US warned Russia of possible terrorist attackBBC News, 3:20 PM ET: FSB: US warned Russia of possible terrorist attack🧶 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, 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

  1. “mass casualty”5
  2. “CREDIBLE THREAT”3
  3. “mass casualties”1
  4. “You don't see this”1
  5. “credible threat”3
  6. “credible threat of a mass-casualty event”2

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)
  • New York Post (4 wordings): “US Embassy issues rare warning over ‘credible threat’ of ‘mass casualty’ event in Moscow” → “US Embassy issues rare warning over ‘credible threat’ of imminent ‘mass casualty’ event at Russian tourist hotspot”
📰 Every outlet's headline 12left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

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

  1. ⚖️ BBC News 68 s
  2. 🐘 Fox News 16 s

📻 On the radio

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

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • The U.S. Embassy warned of a credible threat of a mass-casualty event at the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve in Moscow. Nov 1: told by 20 people

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

🗣️ Names in it

MoscowU.S. EmbassyTsaritsynoTsaritsyno Museum

🔎 Checking

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🧐 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.