Paris suburb shooting under terrorism investigation

🗞️ Story file #872

Paris suburb shooting under terrorism investigation

Oct 23, 9 AM ET to Oct 25, 12 AM ET

12outlets carried it
🫏4 · 2 · 6🐘left · center · right
1.6 dayson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak
7 minof TV captions
16people retold it online

👣 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 23, 9 AM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
Oct 23, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 23, 11 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
Oct 24, 8 AM ETretold online by 16 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 23, 9 AM to Oct 25, 12 AM ET (peak 12), 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: Google News

💬 quoted: “racist terrorist attack” 5 “gunman opens fire at random” “crime of terrorism”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 racist terrorist 🐘 terrorist attack

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

BBC (3 wordings): “Anti-terror police investigate as one person killed in shooting near Paris” → “Deadly shooting near Paris is a 'racist terrorist attack', Macron says”
Breitbart (3 wordings): “Terror Investigation After Gunman Drives Through Paris Suburb Shooting at Pedestrians” → “Man Drives Through Paris Suburb Shooting at Pedestrians… Foreigners Targeted?”
CBS News (2 wordings): “Deadly shooting in Paris suburb may be terrorist act, officials say” → “Deadly shooting in Paris suburb investigated as terrorism, officials say”
NBC News (2 wordings): “One person killed in shooting near Paris, French prime minister says” → “One person killed and 4 injured in suspected Islamophobic shooting near Paris”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Suspect Arrested after 1 Killed and Several Wounded in a Shooting in Paris Suburb” → “Macron Condemns 'Racist Terrorist Attack' Near Paris”
Reuters (6 wordings): “One killed, four injured in drive-by shooting near Paris” → “Macron says Paris suburb shooting that killed one person was terrorist and racist act - Reuters”

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian Macron condemns racism after one killed in ‘terrorist’ shooting near Paris Oct 23, 4 PM ET
CBS News Deadly shooting in Paris suburb may be terrorist act, officials say Oct 23, 10 AM ET
NBC News One person killed in shooting near Paris, French prime minister says Oct 23, 8 AM ET
The Independent Paris shooting leaves one dead after ‘gunman opens fire at random’ Oct 23, 11 AM ET
BBC Anti-terror police investigate as one person killed in shooting near Paris Oct 23, 9 AM ET
Reuters One killed, four injured in drive-by shooting near Paris Oct 23, 7 AM ET
Washington Examiner Deadly Paris shooting suspected to be ‘racist terrorist attack’ Oct 23, 11 PM ET
Breitbart Terror Investigation After Gunman Drives Through Paris Suburb Shooting at Pedestrians Oct 23, 9 AM ET
IJR Paris-Area Shooting Investigated as Suspected Terrorist Attack Oct 23, 9 AM ET
Newsmax Suspect Arrested after 1 Killed and Several Wounded in a Shooting in Paris Suburb Oct 23, 9 AM ET
Red State Macron Incites Outrage by Announcing 'Racist' Terrorist Shooting As Paris Braces for More Riots Oct 23, 7 PM ET
The Western Journal Breaking: Mass Shooting in France Being Investigated as a Terror Attack Oct 23, 11 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News7 min

Macron calls Paris shooting a 'racist terrorist attack' BBC News, 3 min
One person killed by gunman in Paris suburb BBC News, 84 s
One killed, five wounded in Paris shooting attack BBC News, 81 s
Macron: Shooting was a 'racist terrorist attack' BBC News, 47 s
Macron: shooting attack victims targeted migrants BBC News, 27 s

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Atrocity story 🧶 online
“A gunman committed a racist terrorist attack in a Paris suburb, killing one person and injuring several others.”

🧶 Retold online

A gunman committed a racist terrorist attack in a Paris suburb, killing one person and injuring several others. Oct 24: told by 16 people
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 21 likes, 12 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 16 likes, 10 reposts

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Paris

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.