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Founded in 1917 and owned by Integrated Whale Media since 2014. Its billionaires list and wealth estimates are the reference points most people cite, and its editorial stance has historically favored free markets.
Its wealth reporting is genuinely difficult work that nobody else does at that scale. Its most serious criticism is structural: the contributor network, which published thousands of outside writers under the Forbes masthead with limited editing, blurred the line between the magazine's journalism and paid or promotional content for years.