UK to deploy fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks

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UK to deploy fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks

Oct 20, 8 AM ET to Oct 22, 4 PM ET

21outlets carried it
🫏9 · 5 · 7🐘left · center · right
2.3 dayson the front pages
21front pages at once, at its peak
15 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
6people retold it online
13 of 14parts 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 20, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: CNN
Oct 20, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 20, 9 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages
Oct 21, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 22, 8 AM ETretold online by 6 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 20, 8 AM to Oct 22, 4 PM ET (peak 21), 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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Military.com)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “Defensive” “defensive” 2 “RECKLESS”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 expands military support

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

AP (3 wordings): “UK to send jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks, and other Mideast news” → “UK expands military support for Saudi Arabia against Houthis with ‘defensive’ air patrols”
Breitbart (3 wordings): “U.K. Dispatches Fighter Jets to Defend Saudi Arabia from Houthis” → “UK Dispatches Fighter Jets to Defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi Attacks”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News UK to deploy fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia against Houthi attacks” → “UK to deploy fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia against Houthi attacks”
New York Post (2 wordings): “UK will deploy Typhoon fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks” → “Eyes on the skies UK will deploy Typhoon fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “UK to Deploy Fighter Jets to Defend Saudi Arabia” → “The UK Expands Military Support for Saudi Arabia against Houthis to Include 'defensive' Air Patrols”
Reuters (2 wordings): “UK to fly RAF missions defending Saudi Arabia against Houthi attacks, Bloomberg reports” → “Britain says it will carry out defensive air missions over Saudi Arabia”

Every outlet's first headline (21), left to right by AllSides rating