How We Report Numbers: Our Editorial Standards

This page is our public commitment about how every figure on The Newest American is reported. It applies to every profile and guide on the site.

The two badges

Reported means a figure comes from an identifiable public record or credible publication: an SEC filing, a court record, a public contract, a Forbes valuation, contemporaneous press coverage. Estimated means the figure is a third-party model or tracker guess — useful context, never fact. Every material figure on this site carries one of these labels.

Ranges over false precision

When sources disagree — and in this genre they usually do — we publish the range and explain the disagreement rather than picking a number and pretending. If no credible estimate exists, we say so plainly instead of inventing one.

Sources on every profile

Each profile ends with a “Where these numbers come from” box naming the records, publications and trackers behind the figures — including flags where a claim rests on a single source.

What we don’t publish

We don’t publish speculative figures as fact. We don’t cover private individuals or people without substantial public coverage. We don’t publish content about anyone’s private life, relationships, health, home location, or family members who aren’t public figures themselves. We don’t traffic in rumors, including about anyone’s death or legal status.

Corrections

Errors get fixed, visibly. If you spot one, use the contact page — corrections are updated in the article, and the “Last verified” date on every profile reflects its most recent review.