PBS
Our investigations stand on PBS'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
17 stories, each opening at its source.
- PBS NewsHour — Musk spent at least $250M backing Trump in 2024 (America PAC)
- PBS NewsHour — Tarrio's record 22-year sentence for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
- AP via PBS NewsHour — 'Is empathy a sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can be' (2025)
- PBS NewsHour — 'State of New Mexico sues Justice Department and Todd Blanche, saying they blocked its Epstein probe'
- PBS NewsHour / Associated Press — 'Lawmakers demand answers after ‘bombshell’ report of ICE officer shooting in Maine' (July 17, 2026): the shooting, the reported history, the congressional demands, and Brouillette's self-defense claim
- PBS NewsHour on the ‘lack of loyalty’ statement
- PBS NewsHour — emails undermine RFK Jr.'s testimony about the 2019 Samoa trip
- PBS NewsHour — Trump defends Sinclair after the scripted 'fake news' warning drew criticism
- PBS NewsHour — Paramount will pay $16 million to settle Trump '60 Minutes' lawsuit
- PBS: J. Edgar Hoover and the Black Panther Party
- PBS NewsHour · Whistleblower responds after DOJ confirms DOGE mishandled Social Security data (early 2026)
- PBS Frontline — Wolfowitz pushes Iraq at Camp David, September 15, 2001
- PBS Frontline — The Life And Times Of Donald Rumsfeld (documents Ford tenure, Cheney partnership, and the 1980s Continuity of Government exercises)
- PBS Frontline — CIA IG Frederick Hitz interview: ‘there was no directorate of operations instruction about how to deal with drug allegations during the whole period of the Contra cocaine effort’
- PBS NewsHour: Warren says Sanders told her a woman couldn’t win the presidency
- PBS NewsHour — Bill Gates's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (House probe)
- PBS NewsHour — 'Trump's Jan. 6 clemency releases former Proud Boys leader, Oath Keepers founder from lengthy sentences'
Where their work appears on this site
- An Epstein Cover-Up? →
- Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →
- Thumb on the Scale →
- COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
- They Walk Among Us: criminality inside the immigration-enforcement workforce →
- The Illusion of Local News →
- The Pardon Market →
- Protecting Insurrectionists →
- The Editor-in-Chief →
- The Fort Bragg Cartel →
- The National Design Studio →
- The Philanthropist of the Future →
- The Sin of Empathy →
- What Happened to Bobby Kennedy Jr.? →
- The Epstein Class →
- The FBI's War on the Black Panthers →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Media Ownership →
- Military Grift →
- Policing the Poor →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Sowing Division →
- Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
- The Dulles Blueprint →
- The Outrage & Apathy Economy →
- The Tech Right →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
16 FACT · 1 PROBABLY TRUE · 2 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Big Money Fighting for Control of the US Government →
'Conservative': record-breaking billionaire checks and dark-money leadership PACs.
FACT - Protecting Insurrectionists →
'Not a real takeover attempt' — two groups' leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
FACT - The Sin of Empathy →
A named movement now recasts empathy as a weakness or a sin.
FACT - An Epstein Cover-Up? →
A state Attorney General sued the DOJ for the unredacted files — August 5, 2026.
FACT - They Walk Among Us: criminality inside the immigration-enforcement workforce →
David Brouillette — ICE officer, a fatal on-duty shooting and a documented history
FACT - The Pardon Market →
Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and Imelda Cuellar
FACT - What Happened to Bobby Kennedy Jr.? →
Samoa, 2019: 83 dead — and where he fits, precisely.
FACT - The Illusion of Local News →
Sinclair's 'must-run' script: dozens of local anchors reading identical words (2018)
FACT - The Sin of Empathy →
Some of the same figures pair the anti-empathy turn with fear of the immigrant.
FACT - The Editor-in-Chief →
The $16 million settlement.
FACT - COINTELPRO and the Breakfast Program: the FBI’s war on the Black Panthers’ Survival Programs →
The Bureau feared the Panthers most where they were most constructive — the programs, not the guns.
PROBABLY TRUE - The National Design Studio →
The January 16, 2026 DOJ Notice of Corrections
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
The Office of Special Plans and the manufactured WMD case
FACT - The Dulles Blueprint →
The Rumsfeld-Cheney restoration — the Ford administration returns
FACT - Military Grift →
The Structural Bridge — Iran-Contra permissiveness reproduced in modern SOCOM
SOME SMOKE - The Fort Bragg Cartel →
The Structural Bridge — Iran-Contra permissiveness reproduced in modern SOCOM
SOME SMOKE - Thumb on the Scale →
The underlying claim was genuinely disputed — CNN reported it, Warren confirmed it, Sanders denied it.
FACT - The Philanthropist of the Future →
The will, the executor, and the AI company.
FACT - Protecting Insurrectionists →
Then the sentences were erased: ~1,600 pardoned or commuted on day one.
FACT