ClaimsYann LeCun

“But Africa has been developing quickly over the last decades.”

Yann LeCun, posting on X 19 August 2020 Post by @ylecun on X, 2020-08-19 (X)

Factual Economics and markets

Africa has been developing quickly over the last decades.

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'Developing quickly' is vague and undefined.

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Yann LeCun, “Africa has been developing quickly over the last decades.” (said 19 August 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_3b3d98a2cd65, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_3b3d98a2cd65

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