BND - Cornell accuser faces threats and swatting

🗞️ Story file #257

Cornell accuser faces threats and swatting

Oct 8, 6 PM ET to Oct 11, 4 AM ET

17outlets carried it
🫏4 · 4 · 9🐘left · center · right
2.4 dayson the front pages
14front pages at once, at its peak
31 sof TV captions
1fact-check
11 of 13parts 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, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Wire
Oct 9, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 9, 4 PM ETpeak: on 14 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 6 PM to Oct 11, 4 AM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “failures” “Gang Bang” “I Really Do Love U” “sent to frat bro who raped her” “Our Body, Our Choice” “Our Body Our Choice” 3 “gangbang” “Absolutely Terrified”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 cornell accuser

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (3 wordings): “Cornell’s Jane Doe’s Damning Texts Revealed Called Night of Drug-Fueled Sex ’Gang Bang’ ’Our Body Our Choice’” → “Cornell’s Jane Doe’s Damning Texts Revealed Called Night of Drug-Fueled Sex ’Gang Bang’”
News Nation (4 wordings): “Cornell Jane Doe's attorney shares threatening calls, messages she's received” → “Cornell accuser’s lawyer blasts critics, alleges cover-up”
Newsweek (2 wordings): “Cornell Accuser ‘Absolutely Terrified’ Amid Threats, Lawyer Says” → “Cornell Accuser ‘Absolutely Terrified’ as Judge Seals Filings Over Threats”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “The Jane Doe in the Cornell seven case is getting threats” → “Jane Doe in the Cornell seven case is getting threats”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Cornell Jane Doe swatted in fake 911 call that sent armed police to her home, lawyer says” → “Cornell Jane Doe swatted by police after fake 911 call: report”
The Sun (2 wordings): “FRAT SHAME All Cornell 7 evidence as 'picture of Jane Doe shared DURING assault emerges'” → “LOST MEMORIES Leaked texts Jane Doe 'sent to frat bro who raped her' reveal new details on the timeline of her allegations”

Every outlet's first headline (17), left to right by AllSides rating