ClaimsMark Zuckerberg

“We just announced that we are making a fundamental change to our company.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, presenting at Connect 28 October 2021 Meta (Facebook) Connect 2021 Metaverse Event Transcript (Rev)

Factual Their own work or organisation

The company just announced a fundamental change, including looking at and reporting on its business as two segments.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

The second judge said resolved true; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

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What would count as true or false

Judge as of 2021-10-28. True: Meta/Facebook officially announced on or just before 2021-10-28 (for example in its Q3 2021 earnings release of 25 October or at Connect on 28 October) a fundamental change to the company that included reporting its business in two segments (Family of Apps and Reality Labs). Mostly true: the change and the two-segment reporting were announced, but with a minor timing detail off (for example the segment reporting was announced a few days earlier or was set to start in a later quarter). Mixed: a fundamental change (such as the rebrand to Meta) was announced but the two-segment reporting was not part of it, or the reverse. Mostly false: only minor changes were announced, which the claim overstates. False: no such announcement was made.

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Evidence (4)

  1. E1 FB-09.30.2021 - Exhibit 99.1 Facebook, Inc. (Q3 2021 earnings release, Exhibit 99.1) · 25 October 2021 Own record

    “Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2021, we will implement a new financial reporting segment structure with the following two reportable segments:”

  2. E2 The Facebook Company Is Now Meta | Meta Meta (Facebook) newsroom · 28 October 2021 Own record

    “Our corporate structure is not changing, however, how we report on our financials will. Starting with our results for the fourth quarter of 2021, we plan to report on two operating segments: Family of Apps and Reality Labs.”

  3. E3 Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand BBC News · 28 October 2021

    “We're now looking at and reporting on our business as two different segments, one for our family of apps, and one for our work on future platforms.”

  4. E4 Facebook (FB) Q3 2021 earnings report CNBC · 25 October 2021

    “The company announced its plans to break out its Facebook Reality Labs into its own reporting segment starting in the fourth quarter.”

Reasoning

On 25 October 2021, Facebook's Q3 2021 earnings release announced a new structure with two reportable segments (E1), and CNBC reported the plan independently (E4). On 28 October, Meta's newsroom post on the rebrand said it would report on two operating segments, Family of Apps and Reality Labs (E2), and the BBC carried Zuckerberg's statement (E3). The fundamental change and the two-segment reporting were both announced. However, the sources say the segment reporting would only start with fourth-quarter 2021 results (E1, E2, E4), not right away. The criteria list a later start date like this as an example of mostly true.

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Mark Zuckerberg, “The company just announced a fundamental change, including looking at and reporting on its business as two segments.” (said 28 October 2021). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_04f80ba1e5ae, method 0.1.0+3f84d14d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_04f80ba1e5ae

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