After Scott Alexander deleted his blog, articles about him appeared in the New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
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 2021-01-21. True: articles about Scott Alexander or the deletion of Slate Star Codex were published in all three outlets (The New Yorker, Reason and The Daily Beast) after he deleted the blog in June 2020 and on or before 2021-01-21. Mostly true: all three outlets ran such articles, but a minor detail is off (for example, one piece was mainly about the NYT controversy and only partly about him). Mixed: such articles appeared in two of the three outlets. Mostly false: only one outlet ran such an article, or the articles came before the deletion. False: none of the three outlets ran an article about him or the deletion in that period.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 The New York Times's Inconsistent Standards Drove Slate Star Codex To Self-Cancel Reason · 24 June 2020
“On Monday, he took the drastic step of deleting the blog after a New York Times reporter threatened to reveal his name in a forthcoming article.”
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E2 Slate Star Codex - Wikiwand Wikiwand (mirror of Wikipedia)
“As reported by The Daily Beast, the criticism by Alexander and his supporters that the paper was doxing him caused internal debate among The New York Times' staff.”
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E3 Scott Alexander | The Info Web The Info Web
“"The Slate Star Codex 'Doxxing' Is the Latest Squabble Inside New York Times," The Daily Beast, June 2020.”
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E4 What The New York Times' Hit Piece on Slate Star Codex Says About Media Gatekeeping Reason · 15 February 2021
“Back in June, pseudonymous blogger Scott Alexander deleted his blog—Slate Star Codex—after The New York Times threatened to reveal his identity”
Reasoning
Reason published an article on 2020-06-24 about Scott Alexander deleting Slate Star Codex, which falls after the deletion and before the judging date (E1). Secondary sources show that The Daily Beast reported on the Slate Star Codex 'doxxing' dispute, and one dates the piece to June 2020 (E2, E3). None of the evidence covers The New Yorker. The verdict therefore turns between true and mixed on that one outlet, and the evidence does not settle it.
Cite this claim
Scott Alexander, “After Scott Alexander deleted his blog, articles about him appeared in the New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast.” (said 21 January 2021). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_e3da5ad99c66, method 0.1.0+8bea457b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_e3da5ad99c66
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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