🗞️ Story file #1736
Hundreds of schools in Italy, UK, and Ireland evacuated over bomb threats
Nov 11, 7 AM ET to Nov 11, 6 PM ET
- 22outlets carried it
- 🫏8 · 6 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 11 hourson the front pages
- 22front pages at once, at its peak
- 3 minof TV captions
- 4radio newscasts
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- Nov 11, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: CNBC
- Nov 11, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Nov 11, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Nov 11, 6 PM ETpeak: on 22 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 Wire copy
3 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word
HuffPost, Los Angeles Times, NBC News
💬 Quoted
- “hoax”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📌 Linked by aggregators
1 Google News
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- BBC (3 wordings): “Hundreds of Italian schools hit by threats in suspected bomb hoax” → “Schools in Italy, Scotland and Northern Ireland hit by threats in suspected bomb hoax”
- CNN (2 wordings): “Hundreds of schools evacuated in Italy following bomb threats via email” → “Bomb threats prompt evacuation of Italian schools in suspected hoax as UK and Ireland also targeted”
- Financial Times (2 wordings): “Hundreds of schools across Italy, Scotland and Ireland receive bomb threats” → “Thousands of schools in Italy, Scotland and Ireland receive bomb threats”
- NBC News (4 wordings): “At least 300 Italian schools evacuated over nationwide bomb threats” → “Thousands of hoax bomb alerts sent to schools in Italy, U.K. and Ireland”
- Reuters (4 wordings): “At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts” → “Hoax bomb alerts sent to schools in Italy, UK and Ireland in latest disruption - Reuters”
- The Washington Times (2 wordings): “Italy evacuates 300 schools over emailed bomb threat” → “Italy's Meloni says bomb hoaxes aim to stoke fear as schools in Italy, Ireland, Scotland threatened”
📰 Every outlet's headline 22left to right by AllSides rating
- HuffPost🕒 Nov 11, 8 AM ET
Bomb Alerts Sent To Schools In Italy And Northern Ireland In Latest Threats
- The Daily Beast🕒 Nov 11, 12 PM ET
Schools Evacuated as Thousands Hit in Staggering Bomb Threat Blitz
- AP🕒 Nov 11, 10 AM ET
Italy evacuates over 300 schools due to bomb alert, with threats in Scotland and Ireland
- CBS News🕒 Nov 11, 10 AM ET
Thousands of schools in Europe get hoax bomb threats
- CNBC🕒 Nov 11, 7 AM ET
Hundreds of schools in Italy, UK evacuated over 'hoax' bomb threats
- CNN🕒 Nov 11, 7 AM ET
Hundreds of schools evacuated in Italy following bomb threats via email
- Los Angeles Times🕒 Nov 11, 12 PM ET
Italy evacuates hundreds of schools due to bomb alert, with threats in Scotland and Ireland
- NBC News🕒 Nov 11, 7 AM ET
At least 300 Italian schools evacuated over nationwide bomb threats
- BBC🕒 Nov 11, 8 AM ET
Hundreds of Italian schools hit by threats in suspected bomb hoax
- Bloomberg🕒 Nov 11, 11 AM ET
School Bomb Hoaxes Add to Disruption in Europe After Flights
- Financial Times🕒 Nov 11, 7 AM ET Hundreds of schools across Italy, Scotland and Ireland receive bomb threats
- Foreign Policy🕒 Nov 11, 6 PM ET
Hoax Bomb Threats Target Hundreds of European Schools
- Newsweek🕒 Nov 11, 9 AM ET
Hundreds of Schools Across Europe Evacuated Over Bomb Threats
- Reuters🕒 Nov 11, 7 AM ET
At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts
- The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 11, 11 AM ET
Hundreds of Schools Across Europe Receive Bomb Threats
- The Sun🕒 Nov 11, 7 AM ET
BOMB ALERT Bomb threats spark evacuation of 300 schools in Italy after UK hit by alerts
- The Washington Times🕒 Nov 11, 12 PM ET
Italy evacuates 300 schools over emailed bomb threat
- Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 11, 1 PM ET
Italy evacuates hundreds of schools as Europe faces wave of bomb threats
- IJR🕒 Nov 11, 3 PM ET
Bomb Threat Emails Prompt Alerts at European Schools
- New York Post🕒 Nov 11, 10 AM ET
Italy evacuates over 300 schools after bomb threat — as Northern Ireland, Scotland also threatened
- Newsmax🕒 Nov 11, 9 AM ET
Some 300 Italian Schools Evacuated Due to Bomb Threats
- Townhall🕒 Nov 11, 9 AM ET
Schools Across Europe Evacuated Amid More Hoax Bomb Threats
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
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📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 On the radio
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🎙️ On the shows
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🕵️ Investigated, joked about
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🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
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🔎 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.