BND - Federal report finds major banks discriminated against conservatives and religious groups

🗞️ Story file #482

Federal report finds major banks discriminated against conservatives and religious groups

Oct 14, 4 PM ET to Oct 16, 9 AM ET

17outlets carried it
🫏3 · 0 · 14🐘left · center · right
1.7 dayson the front pages
16front pages at once, at its peak
38 sof TV captions

👣 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 14, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Yahoo News
Oct 14, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 15, 12 PM ETpeak: on 16 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 4 PM to Oct 16, 9 AM ET (peak 16), by the outlets' lean: left · 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: Real Clear Politics

💬 quoted: “Debanked and Discriminated”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 banks closed accounts

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “Big Banks Cut Off Conservatives and Christian Groups, OCC Report Finds” → “Big Banks Cut Off Conservatives and Christian Groups, OCC Investigation Finds”
CBS News (2 wordings): “U.S. banks dropped customers over political views, regulator says” → “Top banks dropped customers over political and religious views, regulator says...”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Report: Banks Discriminated Against Conservatives” → “Federal Report: Banks Discriminated Against Conservatives”
Red State (2 wordings): “Report: Major Financial Institutions Exposed for Discriminatory Practices Against Conservative Orgs” → “Pro-Life Report: Major Financial Institutions Exposed for Discriminatory Practices Against Conservative Orgs Jennifer Oliver O'Connell”
The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “Major Banks Rejected Customers Over Political, Religious Views, Federal Watchdog Says” → “Banks Accused of Targeting MAGA and Pro-Life”

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