Rep. Omar's deleted tweet linked to alleged marriage to brother

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Rep. Omar's deleted tweet linked to alleged marriage to brother

Oct 24, 7 AM ET to Oct 26, 5 PM ET

15outlets carried it
🫏1 · 0 · 14🐘left · center · right
2.4 dayson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
11 of 14parts of a saga

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👣 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 24, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Gateway Pundit
Oct 24, 5 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 24, 7 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 24, 7 AM to Oct 26, 5 PM ET (peak 10), 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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“Rumor”1
“fake name & sham marriage to brother”1
“Not To My Knowledge”1
“dirty dandy”1
“Not to My Knowledge”2
“Ilhan Omar”1
“Ilhan Nur Said Elmi,”1
“real name”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Fox News (3 wordings): “Ilhan Omar issues stunning admission when confronted with brother marriage rumors” → “Omar’s deleted tweet could give clue on alleged brother marriage”
New York Post (2 wordings): “exclusive All the clues Ilhan Omar had sham marriage to brother — from marriage certificate to living with ‘dirty dandy’” → “Ilhan Omar’s deleted tweet may reveal that she really did marry her brother”
The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “Deleting Evidence? Ilhan Omar Scrubs Post That Links Marriage To Her Immediate Family” → “It’s Not Just Some ‘Rumor’ That Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother. Here’s The Evidence.”
The Western Journal (3 wordings): “Marriage Certificate from 1997 May Confirm the Real Identity of 'Ilhan Omar' and Her Marriage to Her Brother” → “Omar's Deleted 2013 Father's Day Post Comes Back to Bite Her: Reports Say it Sheds Light on Alleged Brother Marriage”

📰 Every outlet's headline 15left to right by AllSides rating

Yahoo News🕒 Oct 24, 7 PM ET Omar’s deleted tweet could give clue on alleged marriage to her brother
Just the News🕒 Oct 26, 10 AM ET Deleted tweet from Rep. Omar may offer a clue on alleged marriage to her brother
The Epoch Times🕒 Oct 22, 1 PM ET Rep. Ilhan Omar Responds to Allegations She Married Her Brother
The Sun🕒 Oct 23, 6 PM ET SHOCK CLAIMS Unanswered questions about Ilhan Omar's 'fake name & sham marriage to brother'
Breitbart🕒 Oct 22, 10 PM ET Feds Refer to Rep. Ilhan Omar as ‘Ilhan Nur Said Elmi,’ Renewing Allegations She Married Her Brother
Fox News🕒 Oct 22, 11 AM ET Ilhan Omar issues stunning admission when confronted with brother marriage rumors
New York Post🕒 Oct 23, 2 PM ET exclusive All the clues Ilhan Omar had sham marriage to brother — from marriage certificate to living with ‘dirty dandy’
Red State🕒 Oct 23, 11 AM ET Ilhan Omar Mystery Deepens As Her Sister's Marriage Certificate Is Reportedly Posted Online
The American Spectator🕒 Oct 23, 11 PM ET The Many Names of Ilhan Omar
The Daily Caller🕒 Oct 22, 10 AM ET Ilhan Omar When Asked If She Married Her Brother: ‘Not To My Knowledge’
The Daily Wire🕒 Oct 25, 7 PM ET Deleting Evidence? Ilhan Omar Scrubs Post That Links Marriage To Her Immediate Family
The Gateway Pundit🕒 Oct 24, 7 AM ET Ilhan Omar’s Plea of Ignorance Regarding Marriage to Brother IMPLODES as Her Alleged Sister’s Damning Marriage Certificate Emerges
The Post Millennial🕒 Oct 23, 1 PM ET Ilhan Omar's name on search warrant filings matches ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, alleged to be her brother with whom she committed immigration fraud: court docs
The Western Journal🕒 Oct 24, 10 AM ET Marriage Certificate from 1997 May Confirm the Real Identity of 'Ilhan Omar' and Her Marriage to Her Brother
Townhall🕒 Oct 26, 2 PM ET Here's the Deleted Tweet by Ilhan Omar That Could Be the Smoking Gun in Immigration Fraud Case

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🃏 The Babylon Bee 3

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.

🧩 Green card marriage 🐘 2 right shows
“Ilhan Omar's husband is her brother based on social media comments and old allegations.”
🧩 Political moral scandal 🐘 2 right shows
↔️ its answer: Smear campaign
“Ilhan Omar's husband is her brother based on social media comments and old allegations.”

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Ilhan Omar

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ilhan Omar investigation

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Oct 19, 9 AM ET
Obama criticizes Trump administration's investigation of Ilhan Omar
Oct 19, 1 AM ET
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Oct 17, 4 PM ET
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Oct 12, 9 AM ET
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Oct 22, 6 PM ET
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Oct 24, 1 AM ET
Rep. Ilhan Omar faces expulsion calls over name and marriage allegations
Oct 21, 12 PM ET
Rep. Omar's deleted tweet linked to alleged marriage to brother (this story)
Oct 24, 7 AM ET
Ilhan Omar's marriage to brother alleged in new claims
Oct 31, 6 AM ET
Obama-era probe found evidence of sham marriage allegations against Ilhan Omar
Oct 29, 11 AM ET
DHS says it sent DOJ a large case in probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar
Oct 31, 6 PM ET