ClaimsJeff Bezos

“This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail.”

Jeff Bezos, posting on X 11 October 2021 Post by @JeffBezos on X, 2021-10-11 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Bezos said this was one of many stories telling Amazon all the ways it was going to fail.

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.

What would count as true or false

The proposition is that Bezos made this statement. True: a dated record (his social media post, a transcript or reliable reporting) shows that Bezos, on or around 11 October 2021, said in substance that a particular story (for example, an old article predicting Amazon's failure) was one of many stories telling Amazon how it would fail. Mostly true: the record shows he said it, with minor differences in wording or date. Mixed: the wording is accurately reported, but the speaker or context is materially different, for example he quoted someone else. Mostly false: the statement is a significant paraphrase that changes its meaning. False: the record shows that Bezos did not say it, or that it was said by someone else.

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Evidence (1)

  1. E1 How massive Amazon grew during the pandemic, in 8 charts | Fortune Fortune · 18 October 2021

    ““This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail,” Bezos tweeted.”

Reasoning

Fortune is independent of Bezos, and its report [E3] attributes the exact wording to him as a tweet: "This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail." So the quote and the speaker match. The article is dated 18 October 2021, a week after the claim date. The quoted passage gives neither the tweet's date nor the story he was referring to, so it does not confirm "on or around 11 October." It does fit a tweet posted shortly before the article.

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Jeff Bezos, “Bezos said this was one of many stories telling Amazon all the ways it was going to fail.” (said 11 October 2021). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_20a5760852ff, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_20a5760852ff

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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