Reuters
Our investigations stand on Reuters' 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
56 stories, each opening at its source.
- Reuters — 'Plaintiffs in U.S. lawsuit say Monsanto ghostwrote Roundup studies' (Mar. 14, 2017): unsealed filing includes the email recounting Rowland's 'should get a medal' remark
- Reuters — Trump-linked venture fund 1789 Capital tops $1B in assets (Sep 8, 2025)
- Reuters — Deutsche Bank fined $258 million over US sanctions violations
- Reuters — Deutsche Bank investor lawsuit settlement (2022)
- Reuters — 'The Teflon Robe': 3,613 cases with details hidden (2008–2018); 1,509 public; 9-in-10 returned to the bench
- Reuters / Página12 — CCTV of the attack on Nadia Beller; the arrest at Viru Viru airport
- JPMorgan: $290M class settlement (Nov 2023)
- MGX (Abu Dhabi state-affiliated) $2B investment in Binance settled in USD1 stablecoin (Reuters, May 2025)
- Reuters on the pardon
- Reuters — Trump frees former GPB Capital CEO
- Sacks sold $200M in crypto before taking role — Reuters
- DJT $2.5B Bitcoin treasury raise; 9,542 BTC at avg $108,519 by Q1 2026 (Reuters, May 2025)
- Trump reported >$1.4B in new income on 2026 OGE filing (Reuters, Jun 30 2026)
- Reuters on the June 2026 96% DOJ-guidelines finding
- DOGE shutdown, July 7, 2026 — Reuters
- Reuters coverage of the dismissal
- Reuters · Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder Gebbia to improve government websites, sources say (August 21, 2025)
- Reuters / Bloomberg — Founders Fund had pulled its money from SVB before the collapse
- Reuters — 'France probes whether Israeli firm BlackCore interfered' in local elections (May 13, 2026)
- Reuters — Viginum finds BlackCore 'also suspected' of meddling in NYC, Scotland votes (June 11, 2026)
- Reuters — 'Corteva to pay $85 million to settle US farmers' lawsuit over pesticide prices' (June 11, 2026)
- Reuters: Trump Jr.'s 'Amazon of guns' could make millions under new proposed firearm rule (Jul 2, 2026)
- Gulf sovereign funds bankroll Paramount’s WBD bid — Reuters Breakingviews
- Reuters — HCP and Carlyle's ManorCare in $6 billion asset deal (Carlyle keeps the opco; bought ManorCare for $4.9B in 2007)
- BGC $151.5M share repurchase (SEC-filed) — May 19, 2025
- Reuters — HSBC to pay $1.9 billion in money-laundering case
- Reuters — Palantir partners with Israel's defense ministry for war effort (January 12, 2024)
- Reuters — 'About half of Israeli Jews want to expel Arabs, survey finds' (March 8, 2016)
- Affinity AUM $6.16B by early 2026; 99% foreign sovereign wealth (Saudi PIF, Qatar Investment Authority, Lunate/UAE, Terry Gou/Foxconn, undisclosed 6th)
- Sazan Island/Albania development ($1.4–4.7B) active; construction start May 2026 triggered mass protests; Ivanka toured early 2026
- Sun WLFI investment: $75M (Reuters, CoinDesk)
- Reuters: Cove Capital's Kazakhstan tungsten mine and the Trump-announced deal (Nov 6, 2025)
- Reuters · Michelle King steps down as Acting SSA Commissioner (February 2025)
- Reuters: US scraps Justice Department task force that took on cartels, documents show (Oct 2, 2025)
- Carr sets August 6 vote to end the 39% cap · Reuters, July 15, 2026
- Reuters / AP — the October 7, 2023 attack (~1,200 killed, 251 hostages taken)
- Reuters — Top US general outlines initial timeline of US military operation in Iran (Mar 2, 2026) — the CENTCOM briefing that placed authorization on the afternoon of Feb 27
- Oracle’s TikTok stake worth roughly $2 billion — Reuters, March 2026
- Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board (June 2026) — Reuters
- Reuters investigations: Parsing Trump's crypto profits, investors' losses (Jun 9, 2026) — primary source, methodology and dataset
- California and 11 states sue to block Paramount-WBD — Reuters, July 13 2026
- Reuters (Insight, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff & Brad Heath) — Trump promised a sex-trafficking crackdown. His Justice Department hasn't delivered (Aug 13, 2026)
- Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News — Reuters, Oct 2025
- Reuters investigation: 96% of second-term clemency grants failed DOJ guidelines (June 11, 2026)
- Reuters — US House passes bill to crack down on university boycotts of Israel
- Reuters — 'The Teflon Robe': 5,206 people harmed; 341 judges resigned/retired to escape discipline
- Palantir $795M Defense Department award — Reuters coverage
- Reuters — 'US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump megabill' (Jul 1, 2025)
- Reuters, 'Trump administration plans $2.8 billion munitions sale to Israel' (Sep 15, 2026)
- MGX (Abu Dhabi state-affiliated) invested $2B in WLFI’s USD1 stablecoin, Mar 2025 (Reuters)
- Advanced AI chip export approvals to UAE’s G42 followed within months, over national security objections (Reuters)
- Reuters on Senate confirmation vote
- Reuters: $676M restitution exposure erased before restitution order finalized
- Reuters — U.S.-Russia Ukraine talks involve a multi-billion-dollar oil deal (NYT reports)
- Reuters — reporting on the Syngenta ~$1.5 billion GMO-corn settlement with U.S. farmers over the MIR162/Viptera trait sold ahead of Chinese import approval
- Reuters — Eric Trump invests in Israeli drone maker Xtend’s merger with Florida construction firm (Feb 17, 2026)
Where their work appears on this site
- BlackCore: Influence Operations for Hire →
- The Blanche Record →
- Boycott Israel, Lose Your Funding →
- Capturing the referee: the agrochemical revolving door and a captured reviewer →
- 'MAGA's man in Latin America,' charged with a murder-for-hire →
- The Mirror →
- The Doors That Keep Closing on Epstein's Money →
- The $881 Million Wash →
- “Not Like Everyone Else”: Israel’s Ideology of Exemption →
- Off the Charts →
- The Trump Admin's Gutting of Victim Services & Questionable Anti-Trafficking Efforts →
- The Pardon Market →
- Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
- Charging Yourself Rent →
- Read Between the Lines →
- “We close at 5”: Judge Sharon Keller and the discipline that wasn’t →
- Syngenta's record: a $1.5 billion GM-corn settlement and the paraquat lawsuits →
- $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
- The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
- The Deal Inside the Deal →
- The Ellison Press →
- The misconduct funnel: how judicial complaints vanish →
- The National Design Studio →
- Disciplined in the dark: the secret-sanction states →
- Six firms became four — then the antitrust cops moved in →
- Who Lit the Match on SVB? →
- The Epstein Class →
- The Far-Right International →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Judges & Prosecutors →
- Media Ownership →
- Military Grift →
- The Pretoria Playbook →
- The Private Equity Playbook →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
- The Agrochemical Cartel →
- The Tech Right →
- Too Big to Jail →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
59 FACT · 6 PROBABLY TRUE · 2 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Capturing the referee: the agrochemical revolving door and a captured reviewer →
'If I can kill this I should get a medal': an EPA reviewer's email to Monsanto
FACT - Military Grift →
1789 Capital — Trump Jr.’s defense-tech fund
FACT - The Mirror →
2015 — $258 million for stripping sanctions data.
FACT - The Mirror →
2022 — a $26.3 million shareholder settlement over 'high-risk' clients.
PROBABLY TRUE - Disciplined in the dark: the secret-sanction states →
3,613 hidden cases: states disciplined judges but concealed the details — including who they were.
FACT - The misconduct funnel: how judicial complaints vanish →
496 days for traffic tickets: Judge Les Hayes's debtors' prison.
FACT - Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
6. The Trump Family Exposure
FACT - 'MAGA's man in Latin America,' charged with a murder-for-hire →
August 2026: a lawyer is shot three times; her ex-partner is arrested and jailed pending trial.
PROBABLY TRUE - The Epstein Class →
Banks paid over $500 million to Epstein victims with no banker charged
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Changpeng Zhao — Binance founder
PROBABLY TRUE - The Pardon Market →
Changpeng Zhao (CZ) — Founder, Binance
PROBABLY TRUE - The Pardon Market →
David Gentile — Founder and CEO, GPB Capital Holdings
SOME SMOKE - Surveillance States →
David Sacks — from PayPal COO to AI and Crypto Czar
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Donald J. Trump
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Donald Trump Jr. & Eric Trump
FACT - The Pardon Market →
Ed Martin — DOJ Pardon Attorney
FACT - The Pretoria Playbook →
Elon Musk — $277 million, DOGE, and the exit
FACT - The Blanche Record →
Episode 04 — The Abrego Garcia prosecution
FACT - The National Design Studio →
Executive Order 14338
FACT - Who Lit the Match on SVB? →
Firms that helped trigger the SVB run reportedly withdrew first (Founders Fund)
FACT - BlackCore: Influence Operations for Hire →
France's government watchdog confirmed BlackCore targeted the 2026 French municipal elections.
FACT - Six firms became four — then the antitrust cops moved in →
FTC sued Syngenta and Corteva over 'loyalty programs' — and Corteva settled a pricing suit for $85M
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Grab-A-Gun — the ATF direct-ship rule and 1789 Capital's SPAC play
FACT - Media Ownership →
Gulf sovereign-wealth backing: 38.5% at close
FACT - The Ellison Press →
Gulf sovereign-wealth backing: 38.5% at close
FACT - Charging Yourself Rent →
HCR ManorCare: Carlyle had a nursing-home chain sell its buildings and rent them back.
FACT - 'MAGA's man in Latin America,' charged with a murder-for-hire →
He is a documented strategist behind the hemisphere's far-right wave.
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Howard Lutnick — Commerce Secretary
PROBABLY TRUE - The $881 Million Wash →
HSBC paid $1.92 billion and entered a five-year Deferred Prosecution Agreement.
FACT - Surveillance States →
Israel, Gaza, and the January 2024 Tel Aviv board meeting
FACT - “Not Like Everyone Else”: Israel’s Ideology of Exemption →
It is not only the leadership: mainstream polling shows the belief is widely held among Israeli Jews.
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump
FACT - “We close at 5”: Judge Sharon Keller and the discipline that wasn’t →
Judge Mark Fuller: an abuse finding, and an escape by resignation.
FACT - The Blanche Record →
Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. — United States v. Abrego Garcia (M.D. Tenn.)
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Justin Sun / TRON
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
KAZ Minerals / Cove Kaz — the Kazakhstan tungsten stake
PROBABLY TRUE - The National Design Studio →
Michelle King, the February 2025 resignation, and the second whistleblower
FACT - The Doors That Keep Closing on Epstein's Money →
Months later, the task force that produced the memo was shut down entirely.
FACT - Media Ownership →
Nexstar-Tegna and the FCC waiver
FACT - The $881 Million Wash →
No senior HSBC executive was criminally charged.
FACT - Off the Charts →
October 7 was a real mass atrocity — and the disproportion argument depends on saying so.
FACT - Military Grift →
Operation Epic Fury — the undeclared war
FACT - Media Ownership →
Oracle, the TikTok US deal, and the algorithm
FACT - The Ellison Press →
Oracle, the TikTok US deal, and the algorithm
FACT - Surveillance States →
Roelof Botha — Pretoria, Pik Botha's grandson, and Sequoia
FACT - Disciplined in the dark: the secret-sanction states →
Secrecy doesn't just hide wrongdoing — it destroys the deterrent.
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
The $2.3B / $2.3B Symmetry — Reuters' crypto profits investigation
FACT - Media Ownership →
The 12-state antitrust lawsuit to block the WBD deal
FACT - The Ellison Press →
The 12-state antitrust lawsuit to block the WBD deal
FACT - The Trump Admin's Gutting of Victim Services & Questionable Anti-Trafficking Efforts →
The administration calls trafficking a top priority; federal prosecutions have hit their slowest pace since 2010.
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 - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
The full record: ~20 cases, three CLC categories
FACT - Boycott Israel, Lose Your Funding →
The House passed it 237–169 — and it heads to the Senate.
FACT - The misconduct funnel: how judicial complaints vanish →
The human toll: at least 5,206 people harmed — and 341 judges who simply walked.
FACT - Surveillance States →
The New York Times master-database story and Palantir's rebuttal
SOME SMOKE - Read Between the Lines →
The tell is federal preemption: an attempt to bar states from regulating AI for ten years — beaten 99-1, and not over.
FACT - $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
The Trump administration approved a $2.8 billion sale of heavy bombs to Israel and informally notified Congress on September 15, 2026.
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
The UAE / WLFI ‘Spy Sheikh’ Deal
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Todd Blanche's structural conflict of interest
FACT - The Pardon Market →
Trevor Milton — Founder, Nikola Corporation
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Trevor Milton — Nikola founder
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Trump Jr. · Polymarket + Kalshi + 1789 Capital
FACT - The Deal Inside the Deal →
Trump's Ukraine negotiators are Kushner and Witkoff — and Putin folded a Russian energy deal into the talks.
FACT - Syngenta's record: a $1.5 billion GM-corn settlement and the paraquat lawsuits →
Viptera: the GM corn sold ahead of China's approval, and the ~$1.51B settlement
FACT - The misconduct funnel: how judicial complaints vanish →
When discipline does happen, it's usually secret — and decided by other judges.
FACT - Military Grift →
Xtend / JFB Construction — Eric Trump’s Feb 17, 2026 announcement, eleven days before Iran strikes
FACT