Forbes
Our investigations stand on Forbes' 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
26 stories, each opening at its source.
- Forbes — A glaring new conflict of interest undermines public trust in the Federal Reserve (Apr 2020)
- Peter Thiel on Poindexter as informal Palantir advisor — Alex Karp interview / Palantir founder interviews
- Forbes — Trump Jr. and wife defend the lavish wedding 'gift' from the Russian oligarch
- Forbes — America PAC says it sent 87,000+ checks to swing-state signature collectors (Oct 30, 2024)
- Thomas Brewster, Epstein could have made $100 million on a secret police-surveillance investment (Forbes, February 10, 2026)
- Forbes: MSNBC Host Chris Matthews Faces Backlash After Comparing Sanders Win to Nazi Invasion (Feb 23, 2020)
- Forbes — 'Will AI Data Centers Raise Your Electric Bill? The Rules That Decide Who Pays' (PJM costs; who bears them)
- Forbes — Trump baselessly accused Democrats of cheating while leading the pledge
- Forbes — billionaire Leon Black refuses to comply with the Epstein subpoena, sues the House Oversight Committee
- Forbes — Vance discusses 'end times,' the Antichrist, and a UFO-vs-demon theory on a Christian podcast
- Forbes — How did ex-OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji die? What to know (official suicide ruling; Tucker Carlson, Musk murder theory)
- Forbes (Molly Bohannon), 'Super PAC Backing Ted Cruz Received $215,000 From iHeartMedia' (Mar 20, 2024)
- Forbes — DeLauro: 'This secretive attempt to siphon research funds away from NIH is outrageous'
- Forbes — 'These Billionaires Bet Big On Greenland — After Trump Took Interest'
- Forbes — innocent woman jailed five months on a bogus AI facial-recognition match (Angela Lipps)
- Forbes — Hagerty's GENIUS Act clears Senate Banking (lead sponsor)
- Forbes — the Fox/Dominion internal messages (March 2023)
- Forbes — The World's Billionaires (U.S. billionaire count and aggregate wealth, 2025)
- Forbes: Shlomo Kramer profile (co-founder/CEO of Cato; co-founded Check Point)
- Forbes — how the ruler of Dubai went to war with his sixth wife in UK court and lost
- Rebuild cost ~$14–16B over ~20 years, much of it financed by others; One WTC is Port Authority-owned
- Forbes — Everything you need to know about the California billionaire tax vote (the debate over the numbers)
- Forbes: Israel issues chilling cyber-warfare warning after Iran attacks (Dec 14, 2025)
- Forbes — Epstein whistleblower Simon Andriesz dies after exposing Lutnick ties: what to know
- Forbes (Zach Everson): Trump Jr.'s Unusual Machines defense contracts, 331,580 shares, ~$4M paper position
- Forbes, Leslie H. Wexner net worth profile (archived, 2019)
Where their work appears on this site
- The senator, the podcast, and the foreign government's ad money →
- Foodwashing →
- It Has a Rulebook →
- “Limit the First Amendment” →
- Manufactured Sides →
- The Freakout →
- A Million a Day →
- Raiding NIH for the War Department →
- Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
- Sovereignty for Sale →
- Suchir Balaji →
- Suing the Subpoena →
- The 9/11 Questions →
- The Billionaire Flight Myth →
- The Crypto Caucus →
- The Data Center Next Door →
- The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
- The Man in the Room →
- The Oligarch's Wedding Gift →
- The Wrong AI Debate →
- Cheat Like Hell →
- “OK With the End Times” →
- Leslie Wexner →
- The Austerity Myth →
- Dangerous Knowledge →
- The Epstein Class →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Looting the American Public →
- Media Ownership →
- Military Grift →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- The Club →
- The Corporate State →
- The Outrage & Apathy Economy →
- The Real Voter Fraud? →
- The Tech Right →
- Too Big to Jail →
How we graded the claims built on their work
25 FACT · 3 PROBABLY TRUE · 2 SOME SMOKE. 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 no-bid mandate — buying its own ETFs with public money.
FACT - Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
3. The Poindexter–Palantir–Facebook Lineage
PROBABLY TRUE - The Oligarch's Wedding Gift →
A Russian oligarch close to Putin paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the president's son's wedding celebration — and the couple confirms it.
FACT - A Million a Day →
America PAC mailed more than 87,000 checks to people who collected swing-state petition signatures, and handed $1 million checks to selected voters at events.
FACT - The Epstein Class →
Carbyne and the emergency-services surveillance investment
FACT - The Freakout →
Chris Matthews compared Sanders’s Nevada win to the Nazi conquest of France — then apologized on air.
FACT - The Data Center Next Door →
Energy: the new demand is loading tens of billions into power markets — and the rules make all ratepayers pay.
FACT - Cheat Like Hell →
He framed it as matching Democrats — on a baseless premise that they cheat.
FACT - Suing the Subpoena →
He refused to appear — and instead sued the committee in federal court.
FACT - “OK With the End Times” →
He said he 'wouldn't be shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us' — and has followed end-times theology since childhood.
FACT - Suchir Balaji →
He was found dead on November 26, 2024 — about a month after going public. Authorities ruled it suicide.
FACT - The senator, the podcast, and the foreign government's ad money →
iHeartMedia can't pay Cruz for the show's ad revenue — so it donates the money to a super PAC dedicated to re-electing him.
FACT - Raiding NIH for the War Department →
It was done without a public announcement, and lawmakers who control the money called it a Pentagon money-grab.
FACT - Sovereignty for Sale →
Lauder has since taken commercial stakes in Greenland — a conflict of interest analysts say is hard to read as purely commercial.
FACT - Military Grift →
Palantir’s CIA seed and the Poindexter advisory link
PROBABLY TRUE - The Wrong AI Debate →
Present harm #3: at home, AI facial-recognition matches are jailing innocent people — nearly all of them Black.
FACT - The Crypto Caucus →
Republicans wrote the bills; Democrats crossed over to pass them.
FACT - Manufactured Sides →
Right — a network that aired a divisive lie it privately knew was false, to keep its audience.
FACT - Suchir Balaji →
Sam Altman called it a suicide and 'like a friend'; Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk pushed 'murder.'
FACT - It Has a Rulebook →
The Gilded Age echo — measured.
FACT - “Limit the First Amendment” →
The man making the case is the founder of the surveillance-tech industry, out of a military intelligence unit.
FACT - Raiding NIH for the War Department →
The money would come from NIAID's $6.6 billion budget — with reported figures ranging up to about $2 billion a year.
FACT - Foodwashing →
The name it flatters: a ruler a British court found had his own daughters abducted.
FACT - The 9/11 Questions →
The outcome was favorable; the magnitude is arguable; and 'he benefited' is not 'he knew.'
SOME SMOKE - The 9/11 Questions →
The overall financial outcome was, in fact, very favorable to Silverstein.
FACT - The Billionaire Flight Myth →
The proponents' numbers are striking — and they are the proponents' numbers.
PROBABLY TRUE - “Limit the First Amendment” →
The timing: he said it the same day Netanyahu met Trump, in a season when social media was being called a weapon.
FACT - The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
Tier A · Simon Andriesz (2026) — the whistleblower, dead as his disclosure went live.
SOME SMOKE - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Unusual Machines — the Army drone motor contract
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
Victoria’s Secret, Bath & Body Works, and the L Brands empire
FACT