The Financial Times
Our investigations stand on The Financial Times' 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
5 stories, each opening at its source.
- Sacks's Cape Town origin — Financial Times profile
- Financial Times, The enduring mystery of Robert Maxwell (December 2, 2021)
- Financial Times — Envision filed for bankruptcy five years after KKR's ~$10B leveraged buyout
- Financial Times — AI fortunes reviving effective altruism after the FTX collapse
- Financial Times — FCA to examine how it treated whistleblower who died by suicide (the 'lost protection' advice)
Where their work appears on this site
How we graded the claims built on their work
5 FACT · 1 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- The Pretoria Playbook →
David Sacks — Cape Town, 1972, and emigration at five
FACT - The Epstein Class →
Ghislaine Maxwell and the Robert Maxwell inheritance
FACT - The Surprise Was the Business Model →
KKR owned Envision; Blackstone owned its biggest rival, TeamHealth.
FACT - The AI-Safety Money →
Open Philanthropy — Moskovitz and Tuna's foundation — substantially built the field it now shares with Anthropic.
FACT - The Roy Cohn Method →
Robert Maxwell as parallel operator
FACT - The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
Tier A · Simon Andriesz (2026) — the whistleblower, dead as his disclosure went live.
SOME SMOKE