California voters reject billionaire wealth tax measure

🗞️ Story file #1659

California voters reject billionaire wealth tax measure

Nov 9, 10 PM ET to Nov 10, 11 AM ET

23outlets carried it
🫏11 · 6 · 6🐘left · center · right
13 hourson the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
10 minof TV captions
5radio newscasts
37people retold it online
2 of 2parts of a saga

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Nov 9, 10 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Nov 9, 10 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 9, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Nov 10, 5 AM ETretold online by 37 people
Nov 10, 9 AM ETpeak: on 23 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 9, 10 PM to Nov 10, 11 AM ET (peak 23), 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

“billionaires”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

3 Google News · Drudge Report · Political Wire

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

CNN (2 wordings): “California voters reject one-time wealth tax on billionaires” → “California voters reject one-time wealth tax on billionaires Voters in California have rejected a measure to impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on residents with a net worth of over $1 billion.”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “California Rejects Taxing The Ultra-Rich” → “California Rejects Billionaire Tax Measure That Could Have Funded Healthcare”
NPR (2 wordings): “California voters defeat billionaire tax proposal that divided Democrats” → “Why did California's billionaire tax fail to surf the blue wave?”
New York Times (2 wordings): “California Voters Reject Prop. 40 Billionaire Tax Measure” → “Failure of Billionaire Tax Strikes Blow to Progressive Agenda”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “California voters reject billionaire wealth tax following contentious ballot fight” → “California voters reject billionaire tax after $400 million ballot battle”

📰 Every outlet's headline 23left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET California Rejects Taxing The Ultra-Rich
The Guardian🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET California voters fail to pass proposed one-time tax on billionaires’ wealth
ABC News🕒 Nov 10, 2 AM ET California's Prop 40 'billionaires' tax' measure is rejected, AP projects
Business Insider🕒 Nov 9, 11 PM ET Californians reject Prop 40, the billionaire tax tech elites spent millions trying to stop
CBS News🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET California voters reject billionaire wealth tax, CBS News projects
CNN🕒 Nov 10, 8 AM ET California voters reject one-time wealth tax on billionaires
Los Angeles Times🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET Billionaire tax rejected on concern squeezing California’s ultra-rich would harm the economy
NPR🕒 Nov 9, 11 PM ET California voters defeat billionaire tax proposal that divided Democrats
New York Times🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET California Voters Reject Prop. 40 Billionaire Tax Measure
The Independent🕒 Nov 10, 9 AM ET Tech billionaires dodge massive wealth tax as California voters decisively reject controversial Proposition
Yahoo News🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET California voters reject billionaire wealth tax following contentious ballot fight
BBC🕒 Nov 9, 11 PM ET Californians reject wealth tax for billionaires
Newsweek🕒 Nov 10, 5 AM ET California Voters Reject Billionaire Tax, Exposing Democratic Divide
Reason🕒 Nov 9, 11 PM ET California Voters Reject 5% Billionaire Wealth Tax
Reuters🕒 Nov 10, 2 AM ET Billionaire tax measure on California ballot defeated
Scripps News🕒 Nov 10, 8 AM ET Billionaires spent big to fight California wealth tax. Voters rejected it
The Hill🕒 Nov 8, 7 PM ET California rejects billionaire tax proposal in win for executives, Newsom
Fox Business🕒 Nov 8, 2 PM ET California faces one-two punch as voters reject wealth tax and billionaires eye exit
Just the News🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET California voters reject billionaire tax measure
Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET California billionaire wealth tax fails, dashing liberal dreams
Breitbart🕒 Nov 10, 9 AM ET California Voters Reject Punitive One-Time Tax on Billionaire Wealth
New York Post🕒 Nov 9, 11 PM ET California voters officially reject controversial billionaire tax in setback for progressive agenda
Newsmax🕒 Nov 9, 11 PM ET California Voters Reject Billionaire Tax

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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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 5× · 🥇 led 2

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

⚖️ Bloomberg News Now 2

🕵️ 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

🧩 How it's being told

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🧩 Lost the race, won the issue ⚖️ 1 center show 🐘 2 right shows
“California voters rejected a proposal to impose a one-time wealth tax on billionaires.”

🧶 Retold online

California voters rejected a billionaire wealth tax because billionaires can relocate to avoid it and because of massive spending by opponents. Nov 10: told by 37 people; told before on Nov 5, Oct 26, Oct 23, Oct 18, Oct 12, Oct 5

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

🗣️ Names in it

CaliforniaBillionairesCBS NewsUltra-RichCalifornia Voters

what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

🧵 California billionaire tax defeat

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