BND - DOJ moves to strip citizenship from 40 naturalized citizens

🗞️ Story file #147

DOJ moves to strip citizenship from 40 naturalized citizens

Oct 6, 12 PM ET to Oct 8, 5 AM ET

16outlets carried it
🫏6 · 1 · 9🐘left · center · right
1.7 dayson the front pages
15front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions

👣 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.

Oct 6, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The New Republic
Oct 7, 1 AM ETpeak: on 15 front pages
Oct 7, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 12 PM to Oct 8, 5 AM ET (peak 15), 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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Largest Denaturalization Effort in Modern History” 2 “denaturalization effort” “Largest Denaturalization”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 largest denaturalization

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “DOJ Seeks to Strip Naturalized U.S. Citizenship from Foreign Criminals” → “DOJ Seeks to Strip Naturalized U.S. Citizenship from 40 Foreign Criminals”
Red State (2 wordings): “Lie Your Way Into Citizenship? DOJ Moves to Strip It From 40 Accused Fraudsters.” → “DOJ Lie Your Way Into Citizenship? DOJ Moves to Strip It From 40 Accused Fraudsters. Ward Clark”
The Epoch Times (4 wordings): “DOJ Seeks to Strip US Citizenship From 2 Men Convicted of Working for Chinese Regime” → “DOJ Takes 'Largest Denaturalization' Action”
Townhall (3 wordings): “Convicted Chinese Spy Is Among 40 People DOJ Wants Stripped of Citizenship Jeff Charles” → “DOJ Convicted Chinese Spy Is Among 40 People DOJ Wants Stripped of Citizenship Jeff Charles”

Every outlet's first headline (16), left to right by AllSides rating