ClaimsBill Ackman

“Important cause and I am matching dollar for dollar.”

Bill Ackman, X post 19 November 2020 Post by @BillAckman on X, 2020-11-19 (X)

Promise Their own work or organisation

Bill Ackman will match donations to a cause dollar for dollar.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

What would count as true or false

Judge when the fundraiser referred to in the 19 November 2020 tweet closed. TRUE: records show that Ackman gave an amount equal to the money raised from other donors (up to any cap he announced at the time). MOSTLY TRUE: he matched nearly all of it, for example falling short only because of a cap or rounding not stated in the tweet. MOSTLY FALSE: he gave a contribution clearly smaller than a dollar-for-dollar match. FALSE: the fundraiser page, the organiser or a news report shows he made no matching contribution.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (2)

  1. E1 Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is auctioning off a charity lunch — here are the details Yahoo Finance · 1 December 2021

    “Ackman matches the donations paid by the winning bidder, who alongside one guest will attend a private lunch with the billionaire.”

  2. E2 Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is auctioning off a charity lunch — here are the details Yahoo Finance · 1 December 2021

    “Each charity lunch has brought in increasing sums paid to dine with the well-known activist investor — in 2018 the auction sold for $57,700, $75,000 in 2019 and $210,000 in 2020.”

Reasoning

E1 says in general terms that Ackman matches the winning bid in his yearly charity-lunch auction. E2 says the 2020 auction sold for $210,000. Neither item ties the 19 November 2020 tweet to that auction or names the fundraiser it referred to. Neither gives a record of what Ackman actually contributed when that fundraiser closed. Without a record of his matching contribution for this specific cause, the evidence does not settle the criteria.

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Bill Ackman, “Bill Ackman will match donations to a cause dollar for dollar.” (said 19 November 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_7a6cef6e1b24, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7a6cef6e1b24

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