A number of the companies covered by Scion's credit protection contracts are engaged in the mortgage business.
Own records only Only the person's or their organisation's own records speak to it, so it is not scored.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
Reasoning
Scion's reference entities are known only from its own records.
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Michael Burry, “A number of the companies covered by Scion's credit protection contracts are engaged in the mortgage business.” (said 2025). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_18d996f7d2f7, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_18d996f7d2f7
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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