The Daily Beast
Our investigations stand on The Daily Beast'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
10 stories, each opening at its source.
- The Daily Beast — the 'wild' dinner email, Musk's denial, and Hoffman's rebuttal
- The Daily Beast: How No Labels Went From Preaching Unity to Practicing the Dark Arts
- Daily Beast — Pierce's ties to two convicted men; the DEN suits and settlement
- Original reporting: Vicky Ward, The Daily Beast, July 9, 2019 — attributed to an unnamed former senior White House official with knowledge of Acosta’s transition interview
- The Daily Beast: The War Between Bernie Sanders and MSNBC Reaches a New Peak
- The Daily Beast — the four names removed, spokesmen Parnell/Valdez's 'temporary data disruptions,' the reappearance under 'Overseas Operations' (July 7), and the 14/417 + 4/207 = 18/624 split
- The Daily Beast — Weiss accused of new '60 Minutes' meddling in Nigel Farage report
- The Daily Beast — Weiss's 'both sides' memo to staff
- The Daily Beast — 'The Party Girl Who Brought Trump to His Knees' (Cody, Hixon, and the Trump Tower triplexes)
- The Daily Beast — Carolyn Andriano, Epstein victim who testified against Maxwell, has died (accidental overdose)
Where their work appears on this site
- Epstein's Crypto Guy →
- The Freakout →
- The Bipartisan Mask →
- The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →
- The Editor-in-Chief →
- The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
- The Eugenicist in the Room →
- Trump and the Mob →
- The Epstein Class →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- The Corporate State →
- Too Big to Jail →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
8 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE · 1 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- The Eugenicist in the Room →
Epstein's documented contact with technologists (Brin, Gates) - and their denials
FACT - The Bipartisan Mask →
No Labels is a corporate/right-leaning operation wearing a bipartisan mask.
PROBABLY TRUE - Epstein's Crypto Guy →
Pierce was a co-defendant in the DEN abuse suits — then dropped, and settled with one accuser.
FACT - The Eugenicist in the Room →
Reid Hoffman convened the room.
FACT - The Epstein Class →
The Acosta Quote
PROBABLY TRUE - The Freakout →
The antagonism predated the 2020 peak: in July 2019 an MSNBC analyst said Sanders ‘makes my skin crawl.’
FACT - The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →
The count was split in two — and it started with a cover story that fell apart.
FACT - The Editor-in-Chief →
The exodus, and who got reassigned.
FACT - The Editor-in-Chief →
The installation: a $150M website buys the top chair, and a 'both sides' memo.
FACT - Trump and the Mob →
The Teamsters boss who controlled concrete deliveries to his tower was a Gambino associate — and got a friend of his a triplex below Trump's own penthouse.
FACT - The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
Tier B · The victims the meme exploits — these were not hits.
FALSE / MISLEADING