Rolling Stone
Our investigations stand on Rolling Stone'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
11 stories, each opening at its source.
- Rolling Stone — 'NAZA' wants you to bear witness
- Rolling Stone — 'Republicans Call Jan. 6 Legitimate Political Discourse in Resolution' (RNC censure of Cheney & Kinzinger)
- Rolling Stone — 'Crypto Won Big in 2024. AI Is Angling to Do the Same in 2026': LTF's launch, the $100M, Brockman/Lonsdale/Conway/Perplexity, the Fairshake model, the Bores target
- Rolling Stone: CNN’s Debate Performance Was Villainous and Shameful
- Rolling Stone — 'Jeffrey Epstein Aimed to Seed Human Race With His DNA' (Aug 1, 2019)
- Rolling Stone — Epstein estate to pay U.S. Virgin Islands over $105 million (Southern Trust tax benefits)
- Rolling Stone — 'Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage Free Palestine Statements'
- Rolling Stone — Gallego's fundraiser with Marc Andreessen
- Seth Harp — The Fort Bragg Murders, Rolling Stone (Apr 18, 2021) — the underlying investigative reporting on Lavigne/Dumas/Leshikar
- Rolling Stone — Clarence Thomas, a $267,000 RV, and Why American Health Care Sucks
- Rolling Stone — Secrets and Lies of the Bailout (where the money actually went)
Where their work appears on this site
- Clarence Thomas's Benefactors →
- Thumb on the Scale →
- In Their Own Words →
- Protecting Insurrectionists →
- The Blue-Eyed Files →
- The Crypto Caucus →
- The Fort Bragg Cartel →
- The Man in the Room →
- The Philanthropist of the Future →
- The Stadium Double Standard →
- Who's Writing the Democrats' AI Plan? →
- The Epstein Class →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- Military Grift →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
9 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE · 1 SOME SMOKE. 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 - Protecting Insurrectionists →
'Legitimate political discourse' — the RNC's own words vs. the violence on video.
FACT - Who's Writing the Democrats' AI Plan? →
A $100M AI super PAC — a16z-founded, funded by OpenAI's Brockman, Palantir's Lonsdale, and Ron Conway — is built to punish anyone who regulates.
FACT - Thumb on the Scale →
At the Jan 14, 2020 CNN debate, the moderator framed a question on a claim Sanders had just denied — as though it were settled.
FACT - The Blue-Eyed Files →
He planned to 'seed the human race' with his DNA — twenty women at a time, at Zorro Ranch.
FACT - The Philanthropist of the Future →
His own 'AI business': Southern Trust.
FACT - The Stadium Double Standard →
Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour after a 'Free Palestine' performance.
FACT - The Crypto Caucus →
Several of the key Democrats got crypto money right before championing crypto bills.
FACT - Military Grift →
The Fort Bragg Cocaine Network — named soldiers, federal convictions
PROBABLY TRUE - The Fort Bragg Cartel →
The Fort Bragg Cocaine Network — named soldiers, federal convictions
PROBABLY TRUE - Clarence Thomas's Benefactors →
The lender's industry had interests before the Court — and Thomas authored a 2004 ruling that broadly shielded health insurers.
SOME SMOKE - The Man in the Room →
Where the money went: to the banks, not the foreclosed.
FACT