Bloomberg
Our investigations stand on Bloomberg's reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
22 stories, each opening at its source.
- Bloomberg — Key 2008 financial-crisis players are back for coronavirus (Fink advising Mnuchin and Powell; 'the project')
- Palantir Technologies incorporation records (Delaware); CIA / In-Q-Tel funding history — Bloomberg and Business Insider primary reporting
- Carbyne911 — Bloomberg on Jeffrey Epstein and Ehud Barak funding
- Bloomberg — Inside the US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School
- Bloomberg — Israel Taps Blacklisted Pegasus Maker to Track Hostages in Gaza (NSO and Candiru asked to join the war effort, Oct 2023)
- Cantor 2025 revenue on track for ~$2.5B (all-time high per Bloomberg)
- Bloomberg — pardon of CZ and Binance aid to Trump family crypto venture
- Bloomberg — Cantor Fitzgerald gives $10 million to a Tether-led crypto PAC (Apr 15, 2026)
- Bloomberg — 'Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says' (Aug 4, 2026)
- Bloomberg: Reagan-Era Crime Unit Officially Shut Down by DOJ (cases moved to DHS task forces; Nov 7, 2025)
- FCC Media Bureau grants ownership-cap waiver · Bloomberg, March 19, 2026
- Palantir vs. defense primes market cap comparison — Bloomberg
- Hoffman calls investigation ‘political persecution’ — Bloomberg
- Riyadh Trump Tower, Jeddah, and coastal Saudi projects: $7B+ in announced deals (Bloomberg)
- 220 winners spent ~$148M collectively; ~600,000 small-holder wallets lost $3.87B net (Bloomberg / CNBC citing blockchain data, May 2025)
- Murdoch’s $3.3 billion succession deal hands Lachlan control — Bloomberg
- Bloomberg — Andreessen Horowitz donates $25M to Fairshake
- Bloomberg — the report held 'past the midterms' despite the strike's facts already being public
- Bloomberg — Dennis Hastert, former House Speaker convicted in abuse case, dies at 84 (Oct 2026)
- Trump says Netflix–Warner Bros. deal will need review — Bloomberg, Dec. 7, 2025
- Reporting that venture firms, including Founders Fund, urged portfolio companies to withdraw (Bloomberg)
- Bloomberg — 'Tether Benefited as Howard Lutnick, Bo Hines Shaped First US Crypto Law'
Where their work appears on this site
- Devil's Tongue →
- The Doors That Keep Closing on Epstein's Money →
- The Secretary and the Stablecoin →
- The Pardon Market →
- Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
- The Crypto Caucus →
- The Ellison Press →
- The Man in the Room →
- The Most Blackmailable Man in Washington →
- Until After the Midterms →
- How Wall Street Ignored Its Own Rules for Epstein & Black →
- Who Lit the Match on SVB? →
- The Epstein Class →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Media Ownership →
- Military Grift →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
- The Cover Story →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
18 FACT · 6 PROBABLY TRUE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- The Man in the Room →
2020: the same phone, and 'the project.'
FACT - Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
3. The Poindexter–Palantir–Facebook Lineage
PROBABLY TRUE - Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
8. The 2022 Predecessor — Chiliad, Carbyne, and Epstein-orbit prediction-market interest
PROBABLY TRUE - Until After the Midterms →
A US missile struck the school on the first day of the war — and Pentagon personnel knew within hours it was American.
FACT - Devil's Tongue →
Blacklisted by Washington in 2021 — then pulled back in for the Gaza war.
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Brandon & Kyle Lutnick
PROBABLY TRUE - The Pardon Market →
Changpeng Zhao (CZ) — Founder, Binance
PROBABLY TRUE - The Secretary and the Stablecoin →
In 2026, Cantor gave $10 million to a Tether-led crypto PAC.
FACT - How Wall Street Ignored Its Own Rules for Epstein & Black →
JPMorgan: allegedly coached Epstein on hiding cash through shell companies.
FACT - The Doors That Keep Closing on Epstein's Money →
Months later, the task force that produced the memo was shut down entirely.
FACT - Media Ownership →
Nexstar-Tegna and the FCC waiver
FACT - Surveillance States →
Palantir market capitalization and the trajectory
FACT - Military Grift →
Palantir’s CIA seed and the Poindexter advisory link
PROBABLY TRUE - Surveillance States →
Reid Hoffman — the counter-example, and the DOJ scrutiny
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Saudi PIF / LIV Golf / Trump Properties
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
The $TRUMP Memecoin Dinner
FACT - Media Ownership →
The 2025 succession settlement: Lachlan wins sole control
FACT - The Crypto Caucus →
The crypto industry's super PAC spent ~$180 million in 2024 — and it backs both parties.
FACT - Until After the Midterms →
The facts are already public — so the delay protects timing, not secrecy.
PROBABLY TRUE - Until After the Midterms →
The Pentagon intends to withhold its internal report on the strike until after the midterms.
FACT - The Most Blackmailable Man in Washington →
The secret, proven: a serial child molester who paid to bury it.
FACT - The Ellison Press →
The takeover was financed by Apollo and Gulf money — with Trump's son-in-law in the group and Trump claiming the antitrust call for himself.
FACT - Who Lit the Match on SVB? →
Venture-capital withdrawals triggered the historically fast SVB run (March 2023)
FACT - The Secretary and the Stablecoin →
Washington gave the stablecoin business the rules it wanted.
FACT