ClaimsScott Alexander

“The journalist involved hasn’t known about Slate Star Codex for three years, so this is undoubtedly the version he read, and he still chose to make this attack.”

Scott Alexander, blog author 14 February 2021 Statement on New York Times Article (Astral Codex Ten) archived copy

Factual Their own work or organisation

The NYT journalist has not known about Slate Star Codex for three years, so he read the edited version of the Voldemort post that told people not to take it out of context.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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

Reasoning

Claims about the journalist's knowledge and which version of the post he read concern private knowledge that the available material cannot confirm.

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Scott Alexander, “The NYT journalist has not known about Slate Star Codex for three years, so he read the edited version of the Voldemort post that told people not to take it out of context.” (said 14 February 2021). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_0d066e902279, method 0.1.0+8bea457b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0d066e902279

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