ClaimsJeff Bezos

“I’ve written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI.”

Jeff Bezos, posting on X 7 February 2019 Post by @JeffBezos on X, 2019-02-07 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Jeff Bezos has written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI.

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

Judged as of 2019-02-07. True: a post written or published by Bezos about the National Enquirer and/or AMI existed on or by that date (for example his Medium post of about that date). Mostly true: the post existed, but a minor detail differs (for example it was published under a slightly different date or on a different platform). Mostly false: something related existed, but it was not his own post or was not about the Enquirer/AMI. False: evidence shows no such post by Bezos existed.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (3)

  1. E1 A billionaire divorce, raunchy selfies, a supermarket tabloid and extortion claims | CNN Business CNN · 8 February 2019

    “Jeff Bezos, in another rare tweet, tells the world he has blogged. “I’ve written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI,” he writes.”
  2. E2 Jeff Bezos: Amazon boss accuses National Enquirer of blackmail BBC · 8 February 2019

    “In a stunning blog post on Thursday, Mr Bezos posted an email he said had been sent to his intermediaries by AMI's representatives threatening to publish "intimate photos" of him and his lover, former TV host Lauren Sanchez.”
  3. E3 Jeff Bezos Rips National Enquirer With “Extortion” Claims, Defends WaPo Deadline · 7 February 2019

    “In a long and detailed blog post, the usually behind the boardroom Bezos also revealed how American Media has allegedly tried to force him to “capitulate to extortion and blackmail” in order to avoid further personal embarrassment and potential professional problems with his shareholders.”

Reasoning

Three independent outlets report that Bezos published a blog post about AMI's dealings with him. Deadline [E4] described the long post on 2019-02-07, and the BBC [E3] dated it to Thursday, which was 7 February 2019. CNN [E2] reports that his tweet announcing the post about the National Enquirer and AMI matches the quote. A post by Bezos about the Enquirer and AMI therefore existed by the judgment date.

Cite this claim

Jeff Bezos, “Jeff Bezos has written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI.” (said 7 February 2019). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_9d51b83ff6a1, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_9d51b83ff6a1

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

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