Rubio urges Cubans to work discreetly with CIA

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Rubio urges Cubans to work discreetly with CIA

Oct 24, 2 AM ET to Oct 25, 11 PM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏3 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
1.9 dayson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
6people retold it online
1 of 2parts of a saga

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Oct 24, 2 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Hill
Oct 24, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 24, 7 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
Oct 25, 4 AM ETretold online by 6 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 24, 2 AM to Oct 25, 11 PM ET (peak 10), 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 Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Discreet Partnership With The CIA” 4 “Now Is The Time” 2 “failed promises, corruption” “positive change” “Now is the time” 2 “do a little stopover” “discrete partnership with the CIA” 3 “now is the time”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 tells cubans 🐘 rubio urges cubans

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Fox News (2 wordings): “Rubio urges Cubans to work with CIA to bring political change to communist-run island” → “Trump suggests sending Marco Rubio to Cuba to negotiate deal with Havana”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Rubio Urges Cubans to Work With CIA, But Warns: Be Discreet” → “Rubio Urges Cubans to Work With CIA, Discreetly”
The Hill (2 wordings): “Rubio floats CIA ‘partnership’ to Cubans tired of ‘failed ...” → “Rubio floats CIA ‘partnership’ to Cubans tired of ‘failed promises, corruption’”

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Marco Rubio Very Publicly Tells Cubans To Form ‘Discreet Partnership With The CIA’ Oct 24, 5 PM ET
The Guardian Rubio tells Cubans ‘now is the time’ to act to see political change Oct 23, 9 PM ET
CBS News Rubio calls on Cubans seeking "positive change" to work with CIA Oct 24, 12 PM ET
Reuters Marco Rubio calls on those seeking change in Cuba to partner with CIA Oct 23, 11 PM ET
The Hill Rubio floats CIA ‘partnership’ to Cubans tired of ‘failed ... Oct 24, 2 AM ET
Just the News After Trump floats military option, Rubio urges Cubans seeking change to work discreetly with CIA Oct 23, 7 PM ET
Fox News Rubio urges Cubans to work with CIA to bring political change to communist-run island Oct 23, 8 PM ET
Newsmax Rubio Urges Cubans to Work With CIA, But Warns: Be Discreet Oct 23, 9 PM ET
OAN ‘Now is the time’: Rubio asks Cubans to enter discreet ‘partnership’ with CIA Oct 24, 7 PM ET
The Daily Caller ‘Now Is The Time’: Rubio Openly Urges Cuban Dissidents To Pursue ‘Discreet Partnership With The CIA’ Oct 24, 10 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN69 s

Fox News26 s

RUBIO: "NOW IS THE TIME" FOR CHANGE IN CUBA CNN, 69 s
HAVE NEARLY IDENTICAL NAMES Fox News, 15 s
RUBIO URGES CUBANS TO PARTNER WITH CIA Fox News, 11 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🃏 The Onion

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.

🧩 Bay of Pigs 🫏 1 left show 🐘 1 right show 🧶 online
“Marco Rubio called on Cubans to form a discreet partnership with the CIA to bring political change.” and 1 more
🧩 U.S. overreach 🧶 online
“Marco Rubio is urging Cubans to work with the CIA to overthrow the Cuban government.”

🧶 Retold online

Marco Rubio called on Cubans to form a discreet partnership with the CIA to bring political change. Oct 25: told by 6 people; told before on Oct 24
🧩 Bay of Pigs

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

🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump Marco Rubio Cuba Cubans CIA Havana

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump and Rubio Cuba policy

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