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🗞️ Story file #1849

Ukraine says US proposed trading Donbas for NATO membership

Nov 14, 9 AM ET to Nov 14, 7 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 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.

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  1. Nov 14, 5 AM ET

    first on a front page: Bloomberg

  2. Nov 14, 9 AM ET

    first on TV: BBC News

  3. Nov 14, 12 PM ET

    peak: on 11 front pages at once

  4. Nov 14, 1 PM ET

    first on the radio: NPR News Now

📰 Spread

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📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Google News · Political Wire

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

▸ ✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (2 wordings): “Zelensky Says U.S. Suggested Ceding Donbas In Exchange for NATO Membership” → “Zelensky Says U.S. Suggested Ceding Donbas to Russia In Exchange for NATO Membership”
  • CNBC (2 wordings): “U.S. floated idea of Ukraine ceding Donbas for NATO membership, Zelenskyy says” → “Zelensky Says USA Floats NATO Membership in Deal for Donbas...”
  • Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (2 wordings): “Zelenskyy: US Floated Trading Donbas For NATO Membership” → “Updated Zelenskyy: US Floated Trading Donbas For NATO Membership”
📰 Every outlet's headline 11left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. ⚖️ BBC News 5 min

📻 On the radio

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  1. 🫏 NPR News Now 2× · best #2

🎙️ On the shows

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  1. ⚖️ Bloomberg News Now 1
  2. 🫏 David Pakman Show 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

🕵️ 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.

🧶 Retelling

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Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

UkraineZelenskyyNATODonbas

🔎 Checking

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No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

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    Nov 14, 9 AM ET · 📍 this story

    Ukraine says US proposed trading Donbas for NATO membership