Fortune

The reporting we cite

10 stories, each opening at its source.

• Fortune — 'California's $20 minimum wage barely raised prices — and proved economists wrong about job loss'
• Fortune, Leslie Wexner: how a Columbus clothier built The Limited (archived, 1985)
• Fortune — files confirm Epstein's $3M 2014 Coinbase investment, facilitated by Pierce
• Fortune — PayPal Mafia GOP donations tally (June 2024)
• Fortune — Zuckerberg weighed leaving California over the wealth tax; Meta's Class C stock deal
• Fortune: Meta’s $3.3B Louisiana tax break for ~500 permanent jobs (May 14, 2026)
• Fortune — Cantor Fitzgerald as USAT reserve custodian and preferred primary dealer
• Fortune — 'Anthropic hired president Daniela Amodei's husband to work on AI safety' (Feb. 2025)
• Fortune: ‘The godfather of Israeli cybersecurity’ — Kramer is ‘a veteran of the IDF’s intelligence-gathering Unit 8200’
• Kushner, Ellison and Apollo back hostile Warner Bros. bid — Fortune, Dec. 9, 2025

Where their work appears on this site

• Epstein's Crypto Guy →
• “Limit the First Amendment” →
• The Secretary and the Stablecoin →
• Of, By, and For the People? →
• The AI-Safety Money →
• The Billionaire Flight Myth →
• The Ellison Press →
• The Minimum-Wage Myth →
• Leslie Wexner →
• The Austerity Myth →
• The Epstein Class →
• Israeli Influence on the United States →
• Media Ownership →
• Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
• Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
• The Club →
• The Corporate State →
• The Tech Right →

How we graded the claims built on their work

10 FACT · 1 PROBABLY TRUE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

1. California's $20 fast-food wage: pay up ~18%, prices up ~3.7% (about 15 cents on a $4 burger), no significant job loss — though this one is contested.

   PROBABLY TRUE
   The Minimum-Wage Myth →

2. From Kolodne to Columbus, 1937–1963

   FACT
   Leslie Wexner →

3. He steered Epstein into Coinbase — a $3M investment in 2014.

   FACT
   Epstein's Crypto Guy →

4. Keith Rabois — 1992 Stanford slur and $9.3 million in GOP donations since 2022

   FACT
   Surveillance States →

5. Meta's own SEC filing arranged for Zuckerberg to pay a potential Prop 40 bill — and to stay in California.

   FACT
   The Billionaire Flight Myth →

6. Pierce appears more than 1,800 times in the released Epstein files.

   FACT
   Epstein's Crypto Guy →

7. Residents are ordered to subsidize the data centers rising around them — in tax breaks and on their power bills.

   FACT
   Of, By, and For the People? →

8. The aide who helped write the law went to work running Tether's US arm.

   FACT
   The Secretary and the Stablecoin →

9. The conflict runs into Anthropic's own leadership: Open Philanthropy's co-founder is married to Anthropic's president.

   FACT
   The AI-Safety Money →

10. The man making the case is the founder of the surveillance-tech industry, out of a military intelligence unit.

    FACT
    “Limit the First Amendment” →

11. 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
    The Ellison Press →