ClaimsJeff Bezos

“New trailer released at Comic-Con today #TheRingsofPower”

Jeff Bezos, on X 22 July 2022 Post by @JeffBezos on X, 2022-07-22 (X)

Factual Other

A new trailer for The Rings of Power was released at Comic-Con on 2022-07-22.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

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

What would count as true or false

True: a new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was shown or released at San Diego Comic-Con on 2022-07-22 (the panel date and trailer release fall on that day, or late on 21 July US time if the tweet's timezone explains it). Mostly true: a new trailer was released at Comic-Con, but on an adjacent day of the same convention. Mixed: footage was shown at Comic-Con, but it was not a new trailer (for example it was a clip or a previously released trailer). False: no Rings of Power trailer was released at Comic-Con 2022.

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Evidence (3)

  1. E1 Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power New Trailer Reveals the Creation of a Balrog | Comic-Con 2022 - IGN IGN · 22 July 2022

    “Shown at San Diego Comic Con today, a new trailer for upcoming Middle-earth series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showed us the creation of a Balrog, among other things.”
  2. E2 'The Rings of Power' Drops Epic New Trailer for 'LOTR' Series Entertainment Tonight (ET Online) · 22 July 2022

    “During the second day of the San Diego Comic-Con 2022, the creative team and massive ensemble cast took the stage in front of nearly 7,000 fans in Hall H for their panel”
  3. E3 Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Scenes Teased at SDCC Include an Elrond v. Durin IV Rock-Breaking Contest IGN (South Africa) · 22 July 2022

    “It doesn’t appear that Amazon has released this footage online, but IGN can break down what we saw during the panel.”

Reasoning

IGN's report dated 2022-07-22 (E1) says a new Rings of Power trailer was "shown at San Diego Comic Con today" and describes what was in it. ET Online (E2), also dated 2022-07-22, places the Hall H panel on the second day of the convention, and its headline describes an epic new trailer. E3 says the footage was shown to people at the panel and did not appear to have been released online. The criteria count a trailer as "shown or released", so being shown at the panel is enough for true.

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Jeff Bezos, “A new trailer for The Rings of Power was released at Comic-Con on 2022-07-22.” (said 22 July 2022). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_3f16411a3bac, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_3f16411a3bac

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