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US adds torture charges against Maduro and wife

Oct 7, 9 PM ET to Oct 10, 7 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

34outlets carried it
🫏10 · 10 · 13🐘left · center · right
2.9 dayson the front pages
34front pages at once, at its peak
56 minof TV captions
2radio newscasts
1 of 2parts of a saga

👣 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 7, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Washington Examiner
Oct 7, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 8, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 9, 9 AM ETpeak: on 34 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 9 PM to Oct 10, 7 PM ET (peak 34), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost, NBC News)

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire Google News Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “American prisoner forced to eat own VOMIT”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 former venezuelan

✏️ 11 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Nicolas Maduro faces new charges alleging torture” → “Former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, wife face new charges over alleged torture”
Axios (2 wordings): “Maduro hit with fresh torture charges” → “Nicolás Maduro and his wife hit with fresh torture charge”
BBC (2 wordings): “Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expected to face more charges this week” → “Venezuela's ex-leader Nicolás Maduro charged with conspiracy to commit torture”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “Maduro Faces More Charges over Alleged Torture of Americans” → “Reports: Nicolás Maduro Faces New Charges over Alleged Torture of Americans”
NBC News (3 wordings): “New US indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture” → “U.S. indictment charges Maduro with overseeing machine of repression, torture of Americans”
Newsmax (4 wordings): “Maduro, Wife Face Charges Over Tortured Americans” → “New Indictment Charges Maduro With Torture”
Red State (3 wordings): “New Indictment Accuses Maduro of Political Torture” → “Nicolás Maduro New Indictment Accuses Maduro of Political Torture Ward Clark”
Reuters (7 wordings): “Venezuela's Maduro to face new US charges over alleged torture of Americans, official says” → “Venezuela's Maduro charged in US with ordering torture of opponents, Americans - Reuters”
The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “US Prosecutors Add Torture Charge Against Former Venezuela Leader Maduro” → “US Prosecutors Add Torture Charge Against Former Venezuelan Leader Maduro”
The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “Maduro and His Wife to Face Additional Charges Over Torture of Americans” → “Maduro and His Wife Hit with Superseding Indictment”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture” → “Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture of US citizens”

Every outlet's first headline (34), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Venezuela’s Maduro To Face New U.S. Charges Over Alleged Torture Of Americans, Official Says Oct 7, 8 PM ET
The Guardian Nicolás Maduro and his wife indicted for alleged torture Oct 8, 11 AM ET
ABC News Nicolas Maduro faces new charges alleging torture Oct 8, 1 PM ET
AP New US indictment charges Maduro with overseeing machine of repression, torture of Americans Oct 8, 7 PM ET
Axios Maduro hit with fresh torture charges Oct 8, 11 AM ET
CBS News Nicolas Maduro, wife face torture charge in new U.S. indictment Oct 8, 1 PM ET
Mediaite NY Officials to Bring Torture Charges Against Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Oct 7, 7 PM ET
NBC News New US indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture Oct 8, 11 AM ET
NPR New U.S. indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture Oct 8, 1 PM ET
The Independent Nicolás Maduro and wife charged with torture for human rights abuses in Venezuela Oct 8, 12 PM ET
BBC Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expected to face more charges this week Oct 7, 7 PM ET
Financial Times US adds torture charges to case against former Venezuelan president Oct 8, 4 PM ET
Fortune Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro faces new U.S. torture charges after 9 months in a New York jail Oct 8, 12 PM ET
News Nation Maduro, wife hit with torture charges as she seeks release over heart condition Oct 8, 1 PM ET
Newsweek Maduro, Wife Face New Torture Charges. Here’s What It Means for Their Case Oct 9, 6 AM ET
Reuters Venezuela's Maduro to face new US charges over alleged torture of Americans, official says Oct 7, 7 PM ET
Scripps News Crime Nicolás Maduro charged with torture, human rights abuses in new US indictment AP via Scripps News Group Oct 8, 12 PM ET
Straight Arrow News Nicolás Maduro given new torture charge in unsealed indictment Oct 8, 1 PM ET
The Hill Trump administration accuses Maduro of torture in latest indictment Oct 8, 2 PM ET
WSJ U.S. Prosecutors Bring Torture Charge Against Nicolás Maduro Oct 8, 11 AM ET
Just the News Maduro faces more charges including alleged torture, according to new, unsealed federal indictment Oct 8, 12 PM ET
The Epoch Times US Prosecutors Add Torture Charge Against Former Venezuela Leader Maduro Oct 8, 2 PM ET
The Sun GROSS ABUSE Maduro charged with torture after 'American prisoner forced to eat own VOMIT' Oct 8, 1 PM ET
The Washington Times Venezuela’s Maduro, wife face charges over alleged torture of Americans Oct 8, 2 PM ET
Washington Examiner Maduro and wife expected to face charges over alleged torture of Americans Oct 7, 9 PM ET
Breitbart Maduro Faces More Charges over Alleged Torture of Americans Oct 8, 8 AM ET
Fox News Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia Flores face new charge of conspiracy to torture Americans Oct 8, 2 PM ET
New York Post Ex-Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro, wife accused of conspiring to torture Americans Oct 8, 11 AM ET
Newsmax Maduro, Wife Face Charges Over Tortured Americans Oct 7, 6 PM ET
OAN DOJ announces new criminal charges accusing Maduro and his wife of participating in conspiracy to commit torture Oct 8, 5 PM ET
Red State New Indictment Accuses Maduro of Political Torture Oct 8, 12 PM ET
The Daily Caller DOJ Adds Torture Of Americans To Charges Against Maduro And Wife Oct 9, 9 AM ET
The Gateway Pundit Maduro and His Wife to Face Additional Charges Over Torture of Americans Oct 7, 7 PM ET
The Washington Sun Maduro Faces New Charge of Torture of Venezuelans and Americans Oct 8, 6 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN33 min

BBC News18 min

Fox News5 min

MADURO EXPECTED TO FACE NEW CHARGES OVER ALLEGED TORTURE OF AMERICANS CNN, 11 min
NICOLAS MADURO & WIFE CHARGED OVER ALLEGED TORTURE OF AMERICANS CNN, 7 min
Nicolas Maduro and his wife face new charges in US BBC News, 6 min
Nicolas Maduro & wife deny charges against them BBC News, 4 min
Sources: charges relate to wrongful detention of U.S. citizens in Venezuelan prisons CNN, 4 min
New charges relate to torture of US citizens BBC News, 3 min
U.S. PROSECUTORS: MADURO "AUTHORIZED THE USE OF TORTURE". AGAINST MORE THAN A DOZEN U.S. CITIZENS IN VENEZUELA CNN, 3 min
Nicolas Maduro faces new charges in US BBC News, 3 min

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 8, 4:10 PM ET: story 3 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 8, 2:09 PM ET: story 2 of 2

what people online made of it

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

🗣️ names in it: Nicolás Maduro Cilia Flores Venezuela

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Maduro torture charges

US adds torture charges against Maduro and wife (this story)
Oct 7, 9 PM ET
Maduro pleads not guilty to new torture charges
Oct 15, 1 PM ET

US adds torture charges against Maduro and wife

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🧵 Maduro torture charges