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Pro-Trump TV ad funded by government draws fire from both sides

16 publications, in the order they reported. The story spread over 147 hours 53 minutes. Words in highlight are ones the first headline did not use. All top stories · On NewsMarkets

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Publications over time

19:54 UTC23:47 UTC16 publications
Publications in order of reporting
#Time (UTC)After the firstPublicationHeadline
1firstThe HillPro-Trump TV ad funded by government draws fire from both sides by Mallory Wilson
2+25 hours 2 minutesVarietyWhite House Has Spent More Than $440,000 on Pro-Trump TV Ads Paid for by U.S. Government; Administration Defends ‘Unapologetically American’ Spots and Denies They’re Campaign Ads by Todd Spangler
3+27 hours 8 minutesThe GuardianWhite House claims pro-Trump ad it paid Fox to air was ‘public service announcement’ by Robert Mackey
4+74 hours 42 minutesWashington Post (limited free articles)White House expands taxpayer-paid ad campaign boosting Trump by Katherine Doyle
5+84 hours 48 minutesNPRTaxpayer-funded Trump administration ads raise questions about their legality by Leila Fadel
6+85 hours 8 minutesTimes of IndiaWhite House posts third taxpayer-paid ad campaign boosting Trump by SHIVANGHI PAYAL
7+92 hours 41 minutesDeadlineWhite House Defends Using Taxpayer Money To Run Trump Ad — Even Though It’s Nearly The Same As 2024 Campaign Spot by Ted Johnson
8+92 hours 57 minutesMother JonesTrump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ads Are Receiving Bipartisan Criticism by Alex Nguyen
9+99 hours 25 minutesFortune (limited free articles)Taxpayer-funded Trump ads violate laws against propaganda, experts say. The White House calls them a ‘reminder for Americans to love their country’ by Ali Swenson, The Associated Press
10+118 hours 49 minutesAxiosScoop: Trump's hand-picked, taxpayer-funded ads about to ramp up by Alex Isenstadt
11+120 hours 29 minutesArs TechnicaTrump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws by Jon Brodkin
12+121 hours 2 minutesFrance 24Public service announcement or Donald Trump propaganda? by Emerald MAXWELL
13+121 hours 17 minutesRoll CallLawmakers cry foul over publicly funded Trump TV ads by Savannah Behrmann
14+143 hours 13 minutesAl JazeeraUS FCC head says controversial Trump ads do not raise concerns
15+146 hours 28 minutesThe DispatchBecause He Can by Jonah Goldberg
16+147 hours 53 minutesCBS NewsWhite House defends Trump's use of taxpayer money for ad campaign

Who covered it, by audience

12 of 16 publications on this story have an audience score. None of the rated publications whose audience leans Republican covered it, while 7 on the other side did.

Publications by the political lean of their audience
Audience leans Democratic (7)Mixed audience (5)Audience leans Republican (0)
None

Audience lean comes from Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., and Wilson, C. (2018), Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW), article 148, used with the authors' permission. The score shows which party's registered voters, on Twitter, shared an outlet's links more. It is not a rating of the outlet's own slant, and it dates from 2018. See how we use it.