CNN
Our investigations stand on CNN'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
24 stories, each opening at its source.
- CNN reporting on the Tirrell briefing, May 14, 2026
- CNN — footage reveals a third strike in the 'double-tap' attack
- CNN: Man charged with hate crimes after disrupting service at Manhattan synagogue (past mental-health issues)
- CNN — Pennsylvania man gets probation for casting his dead mother's ballot for Trump (May 3, 2021)
- CNN: Warren accused Sanders in tense post-debate exchange of calling her a ‘liar’
- CNN — Thomas to amend disclosures after real-estate report (Apr 17, 2023)
- CNN — Meet the woman behind Dubai's viral super-chunky chocolate bar
- Musk on empathy, Joe Rogan Experience, February 28, 2025 — CNN summary
- CNN — UN acknowledges involvement in Haiti cholera outbreak (Aug 2016)
- CNN: Memos show Clinton camp lines of attack (The Atlantic reveal)
- CNN Business: CNN faces harsh criticism after Trump’s town hall (May 11, 2023)
- CNN: No Labels will not field third-party ticket
- CNN Politics (video): Piker v Carville — How Far Left Should the Democrats Go?
- CNN tally of Torrez requests
- CNN (2017) — migrants sold at slave auctions in post-Gaddafi Libya
- Oracle to oversee TikTok’s US algorithm — CNN, Sept 2025
- CNN — casualty totals reduced and left uncorrected; 140 previously undisclosed wounded (July 2026)
- CNN — Dinah Project: 15 returned hostages (13 women, 2 men) detail sexual violence in captivity
- CNN — Scott Pelley fired after '60 Minutes' clash with management
- CNN — Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products due to Salmonella risk (Aug 2026)
- CNN — The family of Rasheem Carter alleges he was murdered: here's what we know
- CNN — French model recruiter with close ties to Epstein found dead (cause undetermined)
- CNN on Bondi's testimony blaming Blanche for the files process
- Rep. Melanie Stansbury — Zorro Ranch as the only major property with assault allegations never federally searched (CNN Politics, Aug 5, 2026)
Where their work appears on this site
- An Epstein Cover-Up? →
- The Blanche Record →
- Blue Impunity →
- The Wrong Villain →
- Clarence Thomas's Benefactors →
- Thumb on the Scale →
- Foodwashing →
- The Permanent Pollster →
- First They Kill. Then They Find a Reason. →
- No Foul Play →
- The Bipartisan Mask →
- The Blowback Ledger →
- The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →
- The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
- The Editor-in-Chief →
- The Ellison Press →
- The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
- The Hostages Who Praised Their Captors →
- Voting While Republican →
- What the Cuts Let Through →
- Deregulation Reality →
- The Epstein Class →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- Policing the Poor →
- The Pretoria Playbook →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Sowing Division →
- The Interventionist's Ledger →
- The Outrage & Apathy Economy →
- The Real Voter Fraud? →
- The Untouchables →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
26 FACT · 1 PROBABLY TRUE · 1 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- The Blanche Record →
101 former federal and state judges — New York State Bar ethics complaint against Todd Blanche
FACT - First They Kill. Then They Find a Reason. →
A double strike on Nasser Hospital killed 22 people, including five journalists.
FACT - The Wrong Villain →
A man attacked worshippers at Central Synagogue on Shabbat and is charged, federally, with hate crimes.
FACT - Voting While Republican →
Bruce Bartman (Pennsylvania) — cast his dead mother's 2020 ballot for Trump.
FACT - Thumb on the Scale →
CNN released synchronized hot-mic audio of the tense post-debate Sanders–Warren exchange.
FACT - Clarence Thomas's Benefactors →
Crow bought Thomas's mother's house — and let her live there rent-free.
FACT - Foodwashing →
Dubai chocolate went viral on its own. It was not planted.
FACT - The Pretoria Playbook →
Elon Musk — $277 million, DOGE, and the exit
FACT - The Blanche Record →
Episode 02 — The recusal refusal
FACT - Blue Impunity →
Haiti cholera: UN peacekeepers caused an epidemic that killed thousands — then the UN denied responsibility and won immunity in court.
FACT - The Permanent Pollster →
In 2008, Penn urged the Clinton campaign to attack Obama’s ‘American roots’ — and Clinton refused.
FACT - Thumb on the Scale →
In 2022–23, new corporate ownership steered CNN toward the ‘center’ — with the May 2023 Trump town hall as the emblem.
FACT - The Bipartisan Mask →
In 2024, No Labels ran a dark-money-funded third-party ‘unity ticket’ widely assessed as a Trump spoiler — then abandoned it.
FACT - Thumb on the Scale →
In 2026, CNN built a special around a strategist’s open ‘contempt’ for the progressive left.
FACT - The Blanche Record →
June 30, 2026 — The Torrez Letter to Blanche
FACT - The Blowback Ledger →
Libya 2011: the NATO-backed overthrow of Gaddafi produced a failed state with open-air slave markets.
FACT - Media Ownership →
Oracle, the TikTok US deal, and the algorithm
FACT - The Ellison Press →
Oracle, the TikTok US deal, and the algorithm
FACT - The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →
The count was split in two — and it started with a cover story that fell apart.
FACT - The Hostages Who Praised Their Captors →
The counter-fence: the fuller record of captivity is brutal — and mostly civilian.
FACT - The Editor-in-Chief →
The firing, and the accusation: Scott Pelley.
FACT - Clarence Thomas's Benefactors →
The non-disclosure is a pattern, and Thomas amended his filings to confirm it.
FACT - The Pretoria Playbook →
The parallel — CNE's program and the 2024–2026 American program, side by side
PROBABLY TRUE - What the Cuts Let Through →
The summer's marquee outbreak was an imported food: Salmonella in Mexican jalapeños sickened 400+ across 32 states.
FACT - No Foul Play →
The warning: 'three truckloads of white guys.'
FACT - The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
Tier C · The padding: cancers, COVID, and deaths in sleep.
FALSE / MISLEADING - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Todd Blanche's structural conflict of interest
FACT - An Epstein Cover-Up? →
Zorro Ranch: the one major property the federal government never searched.
FACT