NPR
Our investigations stand on NPR'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
43 stories, each opening at its source.
- NPR — 'NAZA' review (the 'video game' and 'insanely fun' testimony)
- Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation; and NPR on the limits of the internal data
- NPR — Musk's swing-state petition giveaway (Oct 20, 2024)
- NPR — 'Judge reluctantly dismisses case against Oath Keepers militia group over Jan. 6 riot'
- NPR — 'The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control' (Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief)
- JPMorgan: $75M to USVI (Sept 2023)
- NPR: The Real Black Panthers
- DOJ approves Paramount’s WBD acquisition — NPR, June 2026
- ProPublica/NPR: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro personally directed the Pentagon to loan money to Vulcan Elements, the Trump Jr.-linked company, over internal OSC objections
- NPR: Joe Lieberman, senator and vice presidential nominee, has died (No Labels founding chair, Mar 27 2024)
- NPR — Examining Halliburton’s ‘Sweetheart’ Deal in Iraq (Dec. 22, 2003)
- NPR — 'The Kansas Tax Cut Experiment Comes To An End As Lawmakers Vote To Raise Taxes' (2017)
- Removed from DHS by Trump Truth Social post Mar 5, 2026; reassigned as ‘Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas’
- NPR: Leon Black defies subpoena to testify in Epstein inquiry and sues House panel (Sept 3, 2026)
- NPR: House holds billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress over Epstein investigation (Sept 16, 2026)
- TikTok US joint-venture deal signed — NPR, Dec 2025
- NPR on the same events
- NPR — RFK Jr. removes all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee
- NPR / AP — Sotomayor's staff urged schools and libraries to buy her books (Jul 11, 2023)
- Newsroom fractures over the story — NPR, March 2024
- NPR — UN report finds reasonable grounds to believe the attacks included sexual violence
- NPR — 'Video Reveals Power of Sinclair, as Local News Anchors Recite Script in Unison' (Apr 2, 2018)
- Rupert Murdoch settles family succession battle — NPR, Sept 2025
- The Free Press sale and Weiss appointment — NPR, Oct 2025
- NPR — Netanyahu: Israel is the 'nation-state of the Jewish people and them alone' (Mar 2019)
- NPR coverage, May 16, 2016
- NPR — Scott Pelley fired from '60 Minutes' amid rising tensions at CBS
- NPR — '$15 Minimum Wage Would Boost 17 Million Workers, Cut 1.3 Million Jobs, CBO Says'
- AP investigation — repatriation without prosecution as the standard outcome
- NPR — Jill Lepore on 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State'
- Curveball admits fabrication, NPR / Guardian, February 2011
- NPR — 'Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new pledge for reporters at the Pentagon' (Sept 20, 2025): the pre-approval pledge, credential threat, and 'Department of War' rebrand
- NPR — CBS chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
- NPR — Alfonsi's contract not renewed after public dispute with Weiss
- NPR — Trump endorses Netanyahu (October 2026)
- NPR — judge says Trump must pay $2 million over misuse of foundation funds
- NPR — Family of man found dead in Mississippi calls for a DOJ probe
- NPR — Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel found dead in a French jail cell
- NPR — 'Trump is trying to preempt state AI laws via an executive order. It may not be legal' (Sacks's role; the legal problem)
- NPR: Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter gets life in prison for child abuse
- NPR — 'What a British surgeon is seeing in Gaza' (Prof. Nick Maynard; children shot at aid sites)
- NPR — Supreme Court gives Trump an interim win on his mail-voting order, but hurdles loom (Aug 24, 2026)
- NPR — Jeffrey Epstein arrested on sex-trafficking charges (Teterboro, New Jersey)
Where their work appears on this site
- A Solution Without a Problem →
- Blue Impunity →
- Breathless, Then Silent →
- How the CIA Engaged in Unethical Human Experimentation →
- COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
- The Doors That Keep Closing on Epstein's Money →
- The Illusion of Local News →
- In Their Own Words →
- Make America Healthy Again? →
- A Million a Day →
- No Foul Play →
- The Bipartisan Mask →
- The Atrocity Claims, Audited →
- Projection →
- Protecting Insurrectionists →
- Suing the Subpoena →
- $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
- The Artificial State →
- The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →
- The Conflation →
- The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
- The Editor-in-Chief →
- The Ellison Press →
- The Engagement Machine →
- The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
- The Minimum-Wage Myth →
- The Philanthropist of the Future →
- The Rest of the Bench →
- The Section 230 Playbook →
- The Trickle-Down Myth →
- Charity Case →
- The Austerity Myth →
- CIA Crimes →
- Deregulation Reality →
- The Epstein Class →
- The FBI's War on the Black Panthers →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- Policing the Poor →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Sowing Division →
- Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
- The Corporate State →
- The Dulles Blueprint →
- The Outrage & Apathy Economy →
- The Real Voter Fraud? →
- The Tech Right →
- The Untouchables →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
45 FACT · 4 PROBABLY TRUE · 2 SOME SMOKE · 1 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- In Their Own Words →
'It's like a video game.'
FACT - In Their Own Words →
'Where's Daddy?': the child's phone.
FACT - The Engagement Machine →
Algorithmic social media is a major driver of the youth mental-health decline.
PROBABLY TRUE - A Million a Day →
America PAC offered $1 million a day to registered swing-state voters who signed its petition, October–November 2024.
FACT - Protecting Insurrectionists →
August 2026: the trial judge 'reluctantly' erased the last conviction — and said so.
FACT - How the CIA Engaged in Unethical Human Experimentation →
Author Ken Kesey was dosed with LSD in a government drug study tied to the CIA's research.
FACT - The Epstein Class →
Banks paid over $500 million to Epstein victims with no banker charged
FACT - COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
COINTELPRO formally targeted ‘Black Nationalist-Hate Groups’ from August 1967, and the FBI made the Panthers its primary target.
FACT - The Ellison Press →
David Ellison's Paramount Skydance and the DOJ-cleared Warner Bros. Discovery deal
FACT - Media Ownership →
David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance and the pending Warner Bros. Discovery deal
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Donald Trump Jr. & Eric Trump
FACT - The Bipartisan Mask →
Founded and chaired by Democrats, but the disclosed money skews Republican and corporate.
FACT - The Dulles Blueprint →
Halliburton, KBR, and the privatization Cheney built
FACT - COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
Hoover publicly designated the Black Panther Party ‘the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.’
FACT - How the CIA Engaged in Unethical Human Experimentation →
James 'Whitey' Bulger was given LSD repeatedly in a covert prison study.
FACT - The Trickle-Down Myth →
Kansas ran the 'real live experiment' — and its own Republican legislature shut it down.
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
KAZ Minerals / Cove Kaz — the Kazakhstan tungsten stake
PROBABLY TRUE - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Kristi Noem — former DHS Secretary (removed Mar 5, 2026)
FACT - The Doors That Keep Closing on Epstein's Money →
Leon Black sued the Oversight Committee to block its Epstein subpoenas — and the House held him in contempt of Congress.
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 Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Prince Andrew stripped of military titles and royal patronages
FACT - Make America Healthy Again? →
RFK Jr's HHS fired every member of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee.
FACT - The Rest of the Bench →
Same standard, a liberal justice: Sotomayor's taxpayer-funded staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books.
FACT - Media Ownership →
Scrutiny of the NYT’s October 7 story: recanting witnesses and reporter conflicts
PROBABLY TRUE - The Atrocity Claims, Audited →
Sexual violence: credibly documented — but not the 'thousands,' and not 'systematic.'
SOME SMOKE - The Illusion of Local News →
Sinclair's 'must-run' script: dozens of local anchors reading identical words (2018)
FACT - Media Ownership →
The 2025 succession settlement: Lachlan wins sole control
FACT - Media Ownership →
The CBS News turn: buying The Free Press, installing Bari Weiss, canceling the Late Show
FACT - The Ellison Press →
The CBS News turn: buying The Free Press, installing Bari Weiss, canceling the Late Show
FACT - The Conflation →
The conflation is a stated posture, not an inference: Israel positions itself as the embodiment of the Jewish people.
FACT - CIA Crimes →
The denial, then the confession: 2012 WSJ vs. 2016 Irvin
FACT - The Editor-in-Chief →
The firing, and the accusation: Scott Pelley.
FACT - The Minimum-Wage Myth →
The honest balance: the official scorekeeper finds real gains AND a real jobs tradeoff — both at once.
FACT - Suing the Subpoena →
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Leon Black as part of its Epstein investigation.
FACT - Blue Impunity →
The impunity is structural: peacekeepers can be prosecuted only by the countries that send them — so they are repatriated, not tried.
FACT - The Artificial State →
The name for it: Jill Lepore's 'Artificial State.'
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
The Office of Special Plans and the manufactured WMD case
FACT - The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →
The press has been ordered not to check — and the war's physical damage is being hidden too.
FACT - Suing the Subpoena →
The sharpest fight is over the NDAs — the paperwork that keeps people silent.
FACT - Media Ownership →
The shelved Daily episode and the leak investigation
FACT - The Editor-in-Chief →
The spiked exposé: CECOT, pulled hours before air.
FACT - Breathless, Then Silent →
The Trump-clan ties are documented — an endorsement, family investments, a former campaign manager running an op.
FACT - Charity Case →
The verdict: $2 million, a fiduciary-duty breach, and an admission.
FACT - No Foul Play →
The warning: 'three truckloads of white guys.'
FACT - The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
Tier A · Brunel and Middleton — ruled suicides, circumstances worth noting.
SOME SMOKE - The Section 230 Playbook →
Today's ask #1: federal preemption of state AI laws — requested by OpenAI, and pursued by a December 2025 White House executive order.
FACT - Projection →
Two January 6 rioters Trump pardoned turned up in child-abuse cases — one sentenced to life.
FACT - Blue Impunity →
UN personnel faced roughly 2,000 sexual abuse and exploitation allegations over 12 years, 300+ involving children — and almost no one was prosecuted.
FACT - $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
US and UK surgeons who volunteered in Gaza testified that children arrived with single, precise sniper wounds — and in day-by-day patterns they read as deliberate.
PROBABLY TRUE - A Solution Without a Problem →
What the order does, and what the Supreme Court allowed (6–3, Aug 24, 2026).
FACT - The Philanthropist of the Future →
What the viral version gets wrong.
FALSE / MISLEADING