There is a community chat associated with the newsletter at balajis.com/chat.
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?
The evidence is the person's or their organisation's own records.
What would count as true or false
True: as of about 7 June 2023, balajis.com/chat existed and led to, or hosted, a community chat linked to Srinivasan's newsletter. Archived snapshots, newsletter posts or third-party accounts from around that date would show this. Mostly true: a community chat linked to the newsletter existed, but the exact URL path was slightly different or redirected elsewhere. False: around that date the URL did not exist or led to no community, and no newsletter-linked chat existed.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (3)
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E1 The Balaji Chat balajis.com (Substack-hosted newsletter) · 21 May 2023 Own record
“I have a new group chat for subscribers that allows for more quiet, in-depth discussions than Twitter.”
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E2 The Balaji Chat balajis.com (Substack-hosted newsletter) · 21 May 2023 Own record
“If you’re on mobile, go to balajis.com/chat.”
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E3 Content Archive balajis.com · 12 November 2020 Own record
“2023 This year saw the first Network State Conference. - The Network State Podcast - The Balaji Chat”
Reasoning
A dated post on Srinivasan's own newsletter from 21 May 2023, about two weeks before the claim, announces "a new group chat for subscribers" (E1). The same post tells mobile readers to go to balajis.com/chat, the exact path in the claim (E2). The newsletter's content archive also lists "The Balaji Chat" under 2023 (E4). All of this comes from the subject's own dated announcements rather than independent sources, but it is specific and matches the claimed URL and the timing.
Cite this claim
Balaji Srinivasan, “There is a community chat associated with the newsletter at balajis.com/chat.” (said 7 June 2023). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_b92359b0015e, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b92359b0015e
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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