🗞️ Story file #249
Trump labels opponents of his AI rebrand as enemies
Oct 8, 3 PM ET to Oct 10, 5 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1.6 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 6 minof TV captions
- 3 of 3parts 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 8, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: Forbes
- Oct 8, 5 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 8, 8 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “THE ENEMY!” 4 “AI” 3 “Super Intelligence” “THE ENEMY,” 5 “The Enemy!” 6
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- HuffPost (2 wordings): “Trump Says Anyone Who Isn’t On Board With His AI Rebrand Is ‘THE ENEMY’” → “Trump Says You’re The Enemy If You Don’t Use His New Preferred Term”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Trump Says Anyone Who Isn’t On Board With His AI Rebrand Is ‘THE ENEMY’ Oct 8, 2 PM ET
Axios
Trump: Anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House uses it Oct 8, 2 PM ET
Business Insider
Trump says you're an 'enemy' of the White House if you don't support his AI rebrand Oct 8, 2 PM ET
Mediaite
Trump Says Anyone Using Term ‘AI’ is ‘THE ENEMY,’ But WH Is Slow to Change Oct 8, 4 PM ET
The Independent
Trump declares anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence to be ‘The Enemy!’ Oct 8, 2 PM ET
Forbes
Trump Calls Anyone Who Says ‘AI’ Instead Of ‘Super Intelligence’ An ‘Enemy’ Oct 8, 3 PM ET
Just the News
Trump declares people who don't use 'super intelligence' for AI as enemies Oct 8, 2 PM ET
The Daily Wire
Trump’s New ‘Enemy’ Is People Who Don’t Abide By His AI Rebrand Oct 8, 8 PM ET
Crooks and Liars
King Trump Decrees Anyone Using 'AI' To Be An Enemy Oct 8, 6 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- TRUMP ADMIN FACES GROWING CALLS TO ENFORCE GUARDRAILS ON AI CNN, 4 min
- TRUMP: ANYONE USING THE TERM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTEAD OF SUPER INTELLIGENCE IS "THE ENEMY" CNN, 52 s
- A NEW TECH-DRIVEN GRIFT MSNOW, 36 s
- “ARTIFICIAL” ENEMY? CNN, 17 s
🧶 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.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump White House
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
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