Claim

Steve Bannon once described Breitbart as the platform for the alt-right.

Type TEXTUAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 6046

Referenced 103 times: checked 1, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 100, shared 2. A count of attention, not evidence.

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Media · e82bf250 Modern · e82bf250

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.9468 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

2 of 4 review checks done · 2 counted

2 independent evidence lineages · review checks 2 of 4 · stability HIGH

Main unresolved issue: 3 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:85f60897-9181-8ffc-a676-e5d5615df7cb

Not yet independently audited.A quoted passage from nbcnews.com was not found on the page when Galedra fetched it.

Why?

Strongest counted support: The excerpt directly says Bannon once touted Breitbart as a platform for the alt-right. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: Bannon touted Breitbart as a platform for the alt-right, a movement known for racist and anti-Semitic views.

Review gaps: independence reviewed, primary source reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported.

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Evidence for

Bannon touted Breitbart as a platform for the alt-right, a movement known for racist and anti-Semitic views.

From Major GOP donors back Breitbart News Read 2026-09-22 Relevance STRONG Steps 0 Counted
Robert Mercer backed Trump's bid and sold his Breitbart stake; Bannon called Breitbart a platform for the alt-right.

From Robert Mercer Sells Breitbart Stake, Steps Down From Hedge Fund Read 2026-09-22 Relevance STRONG Steps 0 Counted
The excerpt directly says Bannon once touted Breitbart as a platform for the alt-right.

From Major GOP donors back Breitbart News Read 2026-09-22 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

None.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
2c156dce		a2c430b4

Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

None. Edges are stored and displayed; v0.1 does not propagate probability across them.

Review checklist

Review checks: 2 of 4

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	847f6185
opposing search done	yes	438544f9
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	no

Summary

Supported. The main support is: The excerpt directly says Bannon once touted Breitbart as a platform for the alt-right. 3fb6fba4

1 further item repeats the same origin and is not independent evidence. 2c156dce

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found none. 438544f9

Review checks: 2 of 4. coverage:85f60897-9181-8ffc-a676-e5d5615df7cb

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Contribution history

seq	event	detail
6046	APPENDED
6047	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
6246	LINK_EVIDENCE	by e82bf250 (accepted)
6248	LINK_EVIDENCE	by e82bf250 (accepted)
8934	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)