Philippines investigates Meghan markle's father over child sex abuse images

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Philippines investigates Meghan markle's father over child sex abuse images

Oct 25, 7 PM ET to Oct 26, 11 AM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏3 · 0 · 4🐘left · center · right
16 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
13people retold it online
2 of 3parts of a saga

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Oct 25, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
Oct 26, 6 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
Oct 26, 8 AM ETretold online by 13 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 25, 7 PM to Oct 26, 11 AM ET (peak 7), 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.

💬 quoted: “possible sex offender of the grossest kind” 3 “sex offender of grossest kind” 2 “abuse images”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 abuse images 🐘 child sex

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

Salon Philippine police: Meghan Markle’s dad may be offender “of the grossest kind” Oct 25, 12 PM ET
The Guardian Signs suggest Thomas Markle Sr may be ‘sex offender of the grossest kind’, says Philippine minister Oct 25, 6 AM ET
The Independent Meghan’s father may be ‘sex offender of grossest kind’, Philippine official says as police probe laptop Oct 26, 6 AM ET
The Sun CHILD SEX PROBE All signs suggest Thomas Markle Snr may be 'sex offender of grossest kind', says minister – as cops trawl 'abuse images' Oct 25, 11 AM ET
IJR Thomas Markle denies child abuse images as Philippines investigates Oct 23, 12 PM ET
New York Post Thomas Markle’s home had trove of child porn — as official calls him ‘possible sex offender of the grossest kind’ Oct 25, 7 PM ET
Newsmax Philippines Probes Meghan Markle's Father Over Child Sex Abuse Images Oct 23, 11 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Thomas Markle Sr. is facing an international investigation into alleged child abuse involving images found on a laptop. Oct 26: told by 13 people; told before on Oct 24

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

🗣️ names in it: Philippines Thomas Markle Meghan Markle Philippine police Philippine government Philippine minister

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Meghan Markle father abuse inquiry

Met police confirm letter about megan's father was not shared with other forces
Oct 24, 2 PM ET
Philippines investigates Meghan markle's father over child sex abuse images (this story)
Oct 25, 7 PM ET
UK police confirm receipt of letter alleging child sex abuse against megan Markle's father
Oct 23, 7 AM ET