Elon Musk jokes about GOP election loss after campaign spending

🗞️ Story file #1423

Elon Musk jokes about GOP election loss after campaign spending

Nov 4, 5 PM ET to Nov 5, 5 AM ET

2outlets carried it
🫏2 · 0 · 0🐘left · center · right
12 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
14people retold it online
2 of 3parts of a saga

👣 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.

Nov 5, 3 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Nov 5, 4 AM ETretold online by 14 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 4, 5 PM to Nov 5, 5 AM ET (peak 2), by the outlets' lean: left

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

“election interfering space lasers”1

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

📰 Every outlet's headline 2left to right by AllSides rating

Axios🕒 Nov 4, 2 AM ET Musk laughs off election drubbing with space lasers joke
Yahoo News🕒 Nov 4, 7 AM ET Elon Musk jokes about GOP election defeat after spending record amount on party

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

left

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Citizens United must be overturned to get money out of politics. Nov 5: told by 8 people (same issue)
Elon Musk is crying. Nov 5: told by 6 people (same issue)

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

🗣️ Names in it

Elon MuskRepublican Party

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Elon Musk's election impact

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