After one year on Substack, Cassandra Unchained is No. 1 Rising on Substack with 402,000 followers and 343,000 subscribers.

Judge as of 2026-10-26. The claim has these parts: (a) Cassandra Unchained had been on Substack for about one year; (b) it was listed No. 1 on a Substack 'Rising' leaderboard; (c) it had about 402,000 followers; (d) it had about 343,000 subscribers. True: Substack's own leaderboard or a dated public snapshot shows the newsletter at No. 1 Rising around that date, its displayed follower/subscriber counts are within about 2% of 402,000 and 343,000, and it launched roughly a year earlier (about Oct–Nov 2025). Mostly true: the ranking and launch timing hold but a count is off by more than 2% and up to about 10%, or the No. 1 ranking was in a Rising category or subcategory rather than overall. Mixed: the ranking holds but both counts are off by more than 10%, or the counts hold but it was not No. 1 Rising. Mostly false: there was a top-10 Rising placement, but not No. 1, and the counts are materially lower. False: there was no Rising ranking near the top and the counts are far lower (e.g. under 75% of those stated).

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1. E1 Michael Burry Cancels 40% Substack Price Hike Plan After Pushback — Denies ‘Money Grab’ Motive StockTwits · 26 October 2026

   “Burry said Cassandra Unchained marked its first year on Substack with 402,000 followers, 343,000 subscribers and the No.1 spot on the platform’s Rising list.”

2. E2 Michael Burry Cancels 40% Substack Price Hike Plan After Pushback — Denies ‘Money Grab’ Motive Yahoo Finance (republishing StockTwits) · 26 October 2026

   “Burry said Cassandra Unchained reached 402,000 followers and 343,000 subscribers, ranking No.1 on Substack's Rising list.”

3. E3 Substack Finance Newsletters Ranked — Subscribers, Paid Tiers & Weekly Movers StockMarketWatch · 4 November 2026

   “| 3 | 0 | Cassandra Unchained↗ | Michael Burry | — | — | 10,000+ paid | Bestseller 10k | 404K | $49 | 2025 |”

4. E4 Substack Finance Newsletters Ranked — Subscribers, Paid Tiers & Weekly Movers stockmarketwatch.com · 4 November 2026

   “| 3 | 0 | Cassandra Unchained↗ | Michael Burry | — | — | 10,000+ paid | Bestseller 10k | 404K | $49 | 2025 |”

5. E5 Substack Finance Newsletters Ranked — Subscribers, Paid Tiers & Weekly Movers stockmarketwatch.com · 4 November 2026

   “The order here is Substack’s own public “Top in Finance” ranking, captured nightly, covering 808 publications across the free and paid leaderboards.”

6. E6 Substack Finance Newsletters Ranked — Subscribers, Paid Tiers & Weekly Movers stockmarketwatch.com · 4 November 2026

   “Subscriber counts are the rounded figures Substack publishes, so a weekly change of a few hundred will not appear. Follower counts come from public author profiles and are exact. Latest snapshot: Nov 4, 2026.”

7. E7 Michael Burry Cancels 40% Substack Price Hike Plan After Pushback — Denies ‘Money Grab’ Motive Asianet Newsable (Stocktwits content) · 26 October 2026

   “Burry said Cassandra Unchained marked its first year on Substack with 402,000 followers, 343,000 subscribers and the No.1 spot on the platform’s Rising list.”

8. E8 Cassandra Unchained — Subscribers, Rank & Growth StockMarketWatch

   “Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #3 today · #3 a week ago · #4 a month ago”

9. E9 Cassandra Unchained — Subscribers, Rank & Growth StockMarketWatch

   “332K on Sep 10, 2026 → 341K on Oct 21, 2026”

10. E10 Michael Burry’s Substack Turns One: He Says A Year Is ‘Useless’ For Judging Skill — Here’s How His Stock Picks Have Fared Yahoo Finance (originally published by StockTwits) · 3 November 2026

    “urged readers to look beyond a single year of returns as his Substack entered its first anniversary month”

The news reports (E1, E2, E7) only repeat what Burry said about his follower and subscriber counts and his No. 1 spot on Substack's Rising list. They do not confirm any of it independently. StockMarketWatch's snapshots (E3–E6, E8) show Cassandra Unchained at #3 on Substack's 'Top in Finance' leaderboard, which is a different list from 'Rising', so no evidence confirms or rules out the No. 1 Rising placement. E9's '332K → 341K by Oct 21, 2026' and the table's '404K' are close to the claimed counts, but the quotes do not say which metric they measure. E10 supports the one-year timing, but the central ranking claim rests only on the subject's own statement.