Balaji Srinivasan's newsletter audience has more than 100,000 subscribers.
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 second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
What would count as true or false
Judged as of 2023-06-07. True if evidence shows the newsletter audience referred to (for example the Network State newsletter or Balaji's Substack) had more than 100,000 subscribers at about that date. Evidence could be Substack's public subscriber indicators, platform data, or credible third-party reporting. Mostly true if the count was within about 5% below 100,000, or the figure combines closely related lists in a way the claim plausibly meant. Mixed if the figure holds only by counting followers on other platforms (for example X/Twitter) rather than newsletter subscribers. Mostly false if the newsletter had substantially fewer subscribers (roughly 50,000–95,000). False if it had well under 50,000.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (2)
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E1 Balaji | Substack Substack · 18 May 2023
“115K+ subscribers”
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E2 balajis.com | Substack Substack (balajis.com homepage) Own record
“· Over 115,000 subscribers”
Reasoning
E1 is Substack's own profile page for Balaji, dated 2023-05-18, about three weeks before the claim. It shows "115K+ subscribers", which is the kind of platform subscriber indicator the criteria accept. The balajis.com homepage (E2, undated and run by the subject) agrees, saying "Over 115,000 subscribers". The platform figure is well above 100,000 at about the claim date, so the claim holds.
Cite this claim
Balaji Srinivasan, “Balaji Srinivasan's newsletter audience has more than 100,000 subscribers.” (said 7 June 2023). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_d2d9d1111c45, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_d2d9d1111c45
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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