2,528 claims · page 6 of 26
| Verdict | Person | Kind | Said | Claim | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta refused to take down true content when pressed by administration officials. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg controls the majority of the voting power at Meta. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta added disappearing messages to its messaging products partly for security reasons. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 10 Jan 2025 | Requiring more confidence for takedowns will dramatically reduce the number of people whose Meta accounts are removed by mistake. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta has a team of intelligence, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and AI staff building systems to identify inauthentic accounts. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta put in place a fact-checking program that empowered third-party fact checkers to mark content false, in response to critiques about misinformation. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg said that when told a piece of content had to be taken down, "we" refused, saying they would not take down humor and satire or things that are true. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 10 Jan 2025 | Changing Meta's content filters to require higher confidence and precision will reduce the vast majority of Meta's censorship mistakes. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | 3.2 billion people use one of Meta's services every day. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg was not directly involved in conversations with Biden administration people about content takedowns. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg has never been in government. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | In Meta's first decade it was well known across the company that the aim was to let people share as much as possible. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | After 2016 Zuckerberg gave too much deference to media who said Trump's election was due to misinformation. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg was worried from the beginning about Meta becoming the decider of what is true. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta generally deferred to the government on some policies that Zuckerberg probably would not follow knowing what he knows now. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta turned over all the documents it had to the congressional investigation, which put together a report. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg controls Meta and does not have to convince the board not to fire him. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Before Meta updated its policies, a statement calling for women to be excluded from certain combat roles could not be posted on its platforms because it called for exclusion of a protected category. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta produced documents for the House investigation led by Jim Jordan into government censorship, and they are public. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg was sympathetic to temporary speech curbs at the beginning of COVID. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta deals with bullying cases and put systems in place to fight bullying. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg was not deeply involved in Meta's content policies during the company's first 10 years. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Facebook's original mission was to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Fake clusters of accounts are against Meta's policies and Meta removes them. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg said that there are emails and that the emails have been published. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg communicates with only a few people over SMS, mostly using WhatsApp, Instagram Direct or Messenger. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta opened up its content policies to allow some content that was previously restricted. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg said he thinks Meta's current approach will be pretty durable going forward, because the company has been pressure-tested on these issues for about eight to ten years. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Zuckerberg said he had been talking to a person he called "him" for a while about a matter ("that") that the excerpt does not name. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta has not had many security breaches over the 20 years Zuckerberg has run the company. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta set up a system of third-party fact checkers intended to check only the worst, clearly hoax content. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | A very small percent of content on Meta's platforms is fact checked. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | Meta identifies bot accounts by building AI systems that detect accounts not behaving as a human would. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 10 Jan 2025 | At 90% precision, across billions of daily users, millions of innocent posts are taken down by Meta's classifiers. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 10 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 1 Jan 2025 | Brooks has not changed the text of the first three columns of his prediction tables since they were published on 1 January 2018. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Gary Marcus | Factual | 1 Jan 2025 | Marcus coined in 2022 the notion that AI might be 'hitting a wall', which later became widespread in outlets such as CNN, The Verge and the Wall Street Journal. Gary Marcus · Factual · 1 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 1 Jan 2025 | By the time the Cardea paper was written, Brooks's MIT research group had been building humanoid robots for twelve years. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 1 Jan 2025 | In 2008 Brooks started a company that built and shipped thousands of humanoid robots. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 1 Jan 2025 | This post is Rodney Brooks's seventh annual update on his dated predictions of 1 January 2018 on self-driving cars, robotics/AI/ML and human space travel. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Deutsche Bank dropped Scion as a client in 2005 for being too aggressive in disputing marks. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Scion Capital employs Citco Fund Services as third-party administrator for its funds. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | The duration of Scion's single-name corporate CDS portfolio is roughly 3.5 years. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Warren Buffett first heard of Forest River, the Indiana RV company founded by Pete Liegl, on June 21, 2005. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | From the start of its Japanese investments, Berkshire agreed to keep its holdings below 10% of each of the five companies' shares. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Scion's investment in Blue Ocean Re has largely been wound up. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | The exposure list Scion gave the FCIC shows its peak exposures, before it sold any positions. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 2025 | A truly staggering insurance loss will occur someday, and there is no guarantee there will be only one per year. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | A number of the companies covered by Scion's credit protection contracts are engaged in the mortgage business. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Scion's credit protection contracts cover $4.27 billion in notional value, largely on financial companies. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Burry said that, as a physician with "(seemingly)" no prior experience, he found the negotiations difficult and met tremendous pushback when he tried to get terms similar to those offered to better clients. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Over the past two decades Berkshire's insurance business generated $32 billion of after-tax underwriting profits, about 3.3 cents per dollar of sales after income tax. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Michael Burry said "we" purchased $10,000,000 of protection on the nine tranche of the deal discussed, and still held $10,000,000 of protection as of January 4, 2007. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Warren Buffett | Promise | 2025 | Buffett will personally match whatever is raised through the sale of the 20 autographed "Charlie" books for the Stephen Center. Warren Buffett · Promise · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | As of the time of the interview, Scion held none of the listed positions. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Michael Burry | Prediction | 2025 | The Scion Value Fund's expense ratio will continue to fall as its equity, now over $14.7 million, grows. Michael Burry · Prediction · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Late in 2024 Berkshire raised its ownership of its utility operation from about 92% to 100% at a cost of roughly $3.9 billion, $2.9 billion in cash and the balance in B shares. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Warren Buffett received an education at three universities. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Elon Musk | Factual | 2025 | Tesla has investigated every possible way to achieve increased voting control for Elon Musk. Elon Musk · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Scion's agreements with counterparties required daily collateral valuation in both directions. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Berkshire's insurance operations are not dependent on reinsurers. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 2025 | Tesla does not have the arrangement that Musk said gets "grandfathered in" at other companies. Elon Musk · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 2025 | Buffett said he expects that Greg and his eventual successors will hold Berkshire's Japanese position for many decades, and that Berkshire will find other ways to work productively with the five companies in the future. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Michael Burry | Prediction | 2025 | Without an automatic 1% asset management fee, the Scion Value Fund's expense ratio will generally be no greater than 1%. Michael Burry · Prediction · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Michael Burry started the hedge fund Scion Capital after his residency and ran it until 2008. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Warren Buffett used the words "mistake" or "error" 16 times in his shareholder letters during 2019-23. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | When buying Forest River, Warren Buffett asked Pete Liegl what his compensation should be and said he would accept whatever Liegl named. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Michael Burry earned a bachelor's degree in economics at UCLA and then an MD at Vanderbilt School of Medicine. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | The Scion Value Fund's minimum initial investment for new members is $250,000. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Word of mouth is the primary method by which the Scion Value Fund is marketed. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Berkshire has a growing investment in Japan, an exception to its otherwise U.S.-based focus. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Over the past two decades Berkshire's insurance float grew from $46 billion to $171 billion. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Michael Burry said the agreement under discussion was not very standard and that its terms were negotiated specifically to protect his side. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | The Symetra Financial IPO has been delayed due to market conditions. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 2025 | Over time Berkshire's ownership stake in all five Japanese companies will likely increase somewhat. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | At year-end 2024 Berkshire's aggregate cost for its holdings in the five Japanese companies was $13.8 billion and their market value totaled $23.5 billion. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Scion COO and General Counsel Steve Druskin and CFO Zaeed Kalsheker led a top-to-bottom reorganization of Scion's back office over the past year. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Becky Quick and her CNBC crew transmit Berkshire's meetings worldwide and archive much Berkshire-related material. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Greg Abel has met many times with the managements of the five Japanese trading companies, and Buffett regularly follows their progress. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 2025 | Microsoft Office was first created for the Mac, before Windows existed. Satya Nadella · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Berkshire does not use options or other one-sided forms of compensation for its executives and directors. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | Carrie, whose grandfather was Bill Kizer, Sr., refused any payment for her extensive work on the new "Charlie" edition. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 2025 | Greg Abel will soon replace Warren Buffett, aged 94, as Berkshire CEO and will write the annual letters. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Blue Ocean Re was set up in late 2005 to take advantage of what Burry called an extraordinary pricing ability in the retrocessional reinsurance space. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Burry's main contact at Goldman Sachs was Veronica, a front-end salesperson. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Michael Burry did an internal medicine internship at the University of Tennessee hospital and two years of residency at Stanford hospital. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Burry said that, when discussing communication problems with counterparties, he thought Morgan Stanley, Goldman and Bank of America had given what he viewed as "dog ate my homework" excuses, such as power failures and systems failures. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Promise | 2025 | Berkshire's 2025 annual meeting will have no movie and will convene earlier, at 8 a.m. Warren Buffett · Promise · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Burry said "we" had some communication difficulties with "the counterparties" over "that summer", and said he did not recall the specific dates. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Satya Nadella | Factual | 2025 | When Nadella became CEO in 2014, Microsoft was behind in both mobile and cloud. Satya Nadella · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | In 2024 Berkshire made four payments to the IRS totaling $26.8 billion. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Guidance | 2025 | Berkshire expects 2025 dividend income from its Japanese investments of about $812 million, against interest cost on its yen-denominated debt of about $135 million. Warren Buffett · Guidance · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Banks told Scion that daily collateral valuation was unusual. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Michael Burry keeps the vast majority of his net worth invested in the Scion Value Fund. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Burry said he dealt with the training (as transcribed), selection and research, while back-office staff dealt with the collateral and interpreting the daily marks. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Scion's CDS positions first started to go well in February 2007. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 2025 | In 2024, 53% of Berkshire's 189 operating businesses reported a decline in earnings, yet Berkshire did better than Buffett expected. Warren Buffett · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Michael Burry | Prediction | 2025 | Burry said he expected additional distributions of capital and profits from the Blue Ocean Re investment during the remainder of the year of the letter. Michael Burry · Prediction · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | Scion did not pay $10,000,000 for the credit default swap; that was only its notional value. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Michael Burry | Factual | 2025 | At the start of the second quarter, Scion Qualified Value Fund held $612 million in assets under management and Scion Value Fund held $133 million. Michael Burry · Factual · 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
“we were like, no, we’re not going to take down things that are true.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, podcast guest 10 January 2025 Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan Podcast (The Singju Post)
Meta refused to take down true content when pressed by administration officials.
Not researched Checkable, but outside the sample that was researched.
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