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🗞️ Story file #1833

UK police launch criminal investigation into allegations against David Walliams

Nov 13, 5 PM ET to Nov 14, 7 PM ET

👣 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.

📰 read it at: Rolling StoneThe GuardianNBC NewsPBS NewsHourBBCReutersNew York Post

  1. Nov 13, 12 PM ET

    first on front pages: BBC and New York Post

  2. Nov 13, 5 PM ET

    peak: on 7 front pages at once

  3. Nov 14, 4 AM ET

    seen retold online by 13 people

📰 Spread

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💬 Quoted

  1. “serious sexual offenses”1

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▸ ✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • NBC News (2 wordings): “U.K. police launch sex offense investigation into comedian and children’s author David Walliams” → “U.K. police launch sex offense probe into comedian David Walliams”
📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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🎙️ On the shows

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🕵️ Investigated, joked about

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  1. 🃏 NewsThump 1

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

The Metropolitan Police are investigating David Walliams for alleged serious sexual offences.
🧶 told by 13 Nov 14 · told before on Nov 13, Nov 12, Nov 11

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 3 likes, 3 reposts

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

🗣️ Names in it

David WalliamsPolice

🔎 Checking

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🧵 Persistence

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    Nov 13, 5 PM ET · 📍 this story

    UK police launch criminal investigation into allegations against David Walliams