🗞️ Story file #156
U.S. trade deficit widens in August
Oct 6, 2 PM ET to Oct 7, 10 AM ET
- 6outlets carried it
- 🫏2 · 2 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 20 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 47 sof TV captions
- 9people retold it online
👣 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, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
- Oct 6, 2 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 6, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 7, 4 AM ETretold online by 9 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Reuters (2 wordings): “Record imports push US trade balance deep into the red in August” → “US trade balance sinks deeper into the red as imports hit record high despite tariffs”
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating
CNBC
Trade deficit hits $105.6 billion, widest since just before Trump tariffs enacted last year Oct 6, 2 PM ET
New York Times
U.S. Trade Deficit Widens in August Oct 6, 9 AM ET
Bloomberg
US Trade Gap Widens to $105.6 Billion as Imports Hit Record Oct 6, 9 AM ET
Reuters
Record imports push US trade balance deep into the red in August Oct 6, 12 PM ET
The Epoch Times
US Trade Deficit Widens in August on Record Imports Oct 6, 2 PM ET
Newsmax
US Trade Deficit Widens Amid Strong Imports Oct 6, 10 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- US trade deficit surges to 17 month high BBC News, 27 s
- US trade deficit hits 1.7-month high despite tariffs BBC News, 20 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Trump's tariffs are failing and causing the U.S. trade deficit to increase, contrary to his claims. Oct 7: told by 9 people
🎙️ voters said it too, in S6 Ep54: MAGA's Future is in Florida (with Will Sommer)
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🔎 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.