ClaimsNassim Taleb

“Just to remind people that I have NOTHING to do with "nassimtaleb. org"”

Nassim Taleb, on X 18 March 2024 Post by @nntaleb on X, 2024-03-18 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Nassim Taleb has no connection to the website "nassimtaleb.org".

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 2024-03-18. True: there is no evidence that Taleb owned, ran, authorised, wrote for or endorsed nassimtaleb.org (e.g. WHOIS or the site's own statements show a third-party fan or aggregator site). Mostly true: the site is unaffiliated, but it reproduces Taleb's material with his permission or has some trivial past link to him. Mixed: there is meaningful but limited involvement, such as past authorisation that he later withdrew. Mostly false: Taleb or his agents contributed to or endorsed the site at some point. False: Taleb owned or operated the site, or officially endorsed it, as of the claim date.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (3)

  1. E1 About - Nassim Taleb nassimtaleb.org (site's own About page) · 26 July 2012

    “My Google searching left me empty handed as to dedicated site to him so for these reasons I decided to start this website, to serve as an index of his work and appearances around the web”

  2. E2 About - Nassim Taleb nassimtaleb.org (site's own About page) · 26 July 2012

    “.org (UNOFFICIAL news site)”

  3. E3 NassimTaleb.org | Nassim Taleb News Site nassimtaleb.org (site homepage) · 8 October 2026

    “Link to Post on X – x.com/nntaleb/status/2096269135361736916”

Reasoning

The site's About page says its author started it as an index of Taleb's work and appearances because no dedicated site for him existed. It does not say Taleb ran or authorised it [E1]. The site also labels itself an "UNOFFICIAL news site" [E2]. The homepage links to Taleb's posts on X [E3], which fits an aggregator and does not show any involvement by him. The criteria name the site's own statements as an acceptable way to show it is a third-party fan or aggregator site, and no evidence shows Taleb owned, ran, authorised or endorsed it.

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Nassim Taleb, “Nassim Taleb has no connection to the website "nassimtaleb.org".” (said 18 March 2024). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_fc525772cbb9, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_fc525772cbb9

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