Calibra is a Facebook subsidiary and the first member of Libra.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Judged as of 18 June 2019. True: Facebook's announcements and the Libra white paper or launch materials of that date show that Calibra was a Facebook subsidiary (the claim's description of Calibra as a 'crypto-currency' is not part of the proposition tested) and was described as the first, or a founding, member of the Libra Association or network. Mostly true: Calibra was a Facebook subsidiary and a founding member of Libra, but was one of several founding members announced at the same time, rather than clearly 'the first'. Mixed: only one of the two parts (subsidiary; first member) holds. Mostly false: Calibra was related to Facebook but was not a subsidiary, and its membership is misdescribed. False: Calibra was neither a Facebook subsidiary nor a Libra member.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (3)
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E1 Coming in 2020: Calibra Facebook (about.fb.com newsroom) · 18 June 2019 Own record
“Today we’re sharing plans for Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary whose goal is to provide financial services that will let people access and participate in the Libra network.”
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E2 Facebook Unveils Libra Cryptocurrency, Targeting 1.7 Billion Unbanked CoinDesk · 18 June 2019
“The Libra Association's group of 28 founding members includes Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber, Lyft, Coinbase and others.”
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E3 1 July 17, 2019 Testimony of David Marcus U.S. House Committee on Financial Services (hosted on congress.gov) · 17 July 2019 Own record
“Technology and marketplaces: Booking Holdings, eBay, Facebook/Calibra, Farfetch, Lyft,”
Reasoning
Facebook's announcement (E1) describes Calibra as a newly formed Facebook subsidiary, but none of the evidence items shows that Calibra was a founding or first member of Libra: E2 does not name Calibra among the 28 founding members, and the quoted line from E3 lists "Facebook/Calibra" under a technology and marketplaces heading without saying the list is of members. The membership part of the criteria is therefore not settled.
Cite this claim
Yann LeCun, “Calibra is a Facebook subsidiary and the first member of Libra.” (said 18 June 2019). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_50f7fbe7df30, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_50f7fbe7df30
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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