Source tracing

How a claim travelled: the earliest post we found, who repeated it, and when the official answer came.

“All staff, the whole Gulf”: how a US embassy order grew in the retelling

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Denial 19:2419:0619:1919:2419:2719:3119:3419:3619:51

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Earliest post found Repeats the claim Official denial · Our corrections followed at 22:12–22:23 UTC.

Confidence: the order of posts is exact; “first” means first found, not proven origin.

19:06 UTCFrench
French-language news account (~460,000 followers): the US has ordered “all its employees” out
46,363 views
19:19 UTCFrench
French OSINT account (~15,000 followers) repeats the Gulf-wide version
2,936 views
19:24 UTCEnglish
State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott: “This is inaccurate… Saudi Arabia only”
641,000+ views
19:27 UTCEnglish
English OSINT account (~2,300 followers) posts the Gulf-wide version
314 views
19:31 UTCEnglish
Small English account: “All US embassy staff in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf… LEAVE IMMEDIATELY”
324 views
19:34 UTCArabic
Arabic account (~11,000 followers) posts the Gulf-wide version
568 views
19:36 UTCArabic
Arabic finance account (~10,000 followers) — the most-viewed Arabic post we found
76,744 views
19:51 UTCFrench
French news account (~27,000 followers) still carries the Gulf-wide version
1,667 views
22:12 UTCFrench
Our first correction (French), quoting the State Department
6 replies in FR, EN, AR by 22:23