1,587 claims · page 9 of 16
| Verdict | Person | Kind | Said | Claim | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 11 Oct 2021 | Bezos said this was one of many stories telling Amazon all the ways it was going to fail. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 11 Oct 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 6 Oct 2021 | Demis Hassabis is supporting the Alexander Crummell scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds at Queens' College, Cambridge. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 6 Oct 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 1 Oct 2021 | After many failures and setbacks in gaming, Jeff Bezos says "we" have had a success, and he praises the team for its persistence. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 1 Oct 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 30 Sep 2021 | Sam Altman invested in TrialSpark, announced on 2021-09-30. Sam Altman · Factual · 30 Sep 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Marc Andreessen | Promise | 20 Sep 2021 | Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz will host their Clubhouse show "One On One with A & Z" on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 5:00 PM Pacific. Marc Andreessen · Promise · 20 Sep 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Marc Andreessen | Promise | 20 Aug 2021 | Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz will host their Clubhouse show "One On One with A & Z" on Monday, August 23, 2021 at 7:00 PM Pacific. Marc Andreessen · Promise · 20 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | The NYSE has offered to work closely with PSTH and the SEC to accelerate the necessary rule change for SPARC warrants. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | The Sponsor Warrants restrict selling, hedging or transferring for three years after the initial business combination. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | PSTH's ability to complete a transaction in the required time frame has been impaired by the lawsuit. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | As of August 2021, PSTH has about 11 months remaining to enter into a letter of intent for its initial business combination. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Bill Ackman | Promise | 19 Aug 2021 | PSTH shareholders will receive $20 per share in cash and one SPARC warrant per share owned, following the cash return. Bill Ackman · Promise · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Prediction | 19 Aug 2021 | The time needed to resolve the lawsuit will increase the likelihood that the Sponsor and Director Warrants expire worthless. Bill Ackman · Prediction · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | Listing SPARC warrants on the NYSE requires an NYSE rule change subject to SEC approval, which is being pursued with the NYSE. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | None of PSTH's directors nor its Sponsor has received or been promised any compensation of any kind. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | Had the UMG transaction closed, the Pershing Square Funds would have invested $1.6 billion in PSTH units on the same terms as IPO investors. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Prediction | 19 Aug 2021 | The existence of the litigation may deter potential merger partners from working with PSTH until the lawsuit is resolved. Bill Ackman · Prediction · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Prediction | 19 Aug 2021 | The lawsuit against PSTH is unlikely to be resolved in the short term. Bill Ackman · Prediction · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Prediction | 19 Aug 2021 | Ackman stated that "we expect" all PSTH shareholders would be highly supportive of the rule change needed to replace the Distributable Warrants with SPARC Distributable Warrants. Bill Ackman · Prediction · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Ackman | Prediction | 19 Aug 2021 | The Sponsor Warrants will likely be worthless if PSTH does not complete a high-quality transaction on favorable terms. Bill Ackman · Prediction · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Ackman | Prediction | 19 Aug 2021 | PSTH will secure SPARC's approval, giving a path to mitigate the harm the litigation causes shareholders and warrant holders. Bill Ackman · Prediction · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | The abandoned PSTH/UMG deal is the only SPAC business combination known to the speaker where the sponsor would have received no additional consideration versus other shareholders. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Promise | 19 Aug 2021 | If SPARC is approved by the SEC and its warrants by the NYSE and PSTH has not entered a merger, Pershing Square intends to seek PSTH shareholder approval to return the $4 billion of cash held in trust. Bill Ackman · Promise · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Bill Ackman | Factual | 19 Aug 2021 | The SPARC warrants will remove the two-year "shot clock" for a sponsor to complete a transaction. Bill Ackman · Factual · 19 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Marc Andreessen | Promise | 13 Aug 2021 | Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz will host their Clubhouse show "One On One with A & Z" on Monday, August 16, 2021 at 7:00 PM Pacific. Marc Andreessen · Promise · 13 Aug 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 22 Jul 2021 | The AlphaFold work represents the culmination of five years of effort by the DeepMind AlphaFold team, including overcoming setbacks and developing new algorithmic innovations. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 22 Jul 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 22 Jul 2021 | DeepMind's AlphaFold team worked for five years and closely with EMBL-EBI for the past few months to be able to share the AlphaFold resource. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 22 Jul 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 20 Jul 2021 | Jeff Bezos has stepped down as CEO of Amazon. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 20 Jul 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Nate Silver | Factual | 8 Jun 2021 | The 2020 election forecasts by Nate Silver's team were largely accurate and well-calibrated despite a bad year for the polls. Nate Silver · Factual · 8 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Ørsted | Promise | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted raised its ambition for renewable build-out from +30 GW announced at the 2018 Capital Markets Day to approx. 50 GW by 2030. Ørsted · Promise · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Ørsted | Promise | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted sets the ambition that no later than 2030 all new projects it commissions will have a net-positive biodiversity impact. Ørsted · Promise · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Ørsted | Promise | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted plans to invest approx. DKK 350 billion in green energy from 2020 to 2027, raising average yearly investments by approx. 50% since the last Capital Markets Day. Ørsted · Promise · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ørsted | Factual | 2 Jun 2021 | The announcement does not change Ørsted's financial outlook for 2021 or the expected investment level announced for 2021. Ørsted · Factual · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Ørsted | Factual | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted has been named the world's most sustainable energy company three years in a row. Ørsted · Factual · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Ørsted | Promise | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted sets the ambition to reach approx. 50 GW of installed renewable capacity by 2030. Ørsted · Promise · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Ørsted | Prediction | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted expects its average return on capital employed for 2020-2027 to be 11-12%. Ørsted · Prediction · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ørsted | Factual | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted has a total of 12 GW of installed renewable capacity and has built a global market-leading position in renewable energy over the past decade. Ørsted · Factual · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Ørsted | Prediction | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted expects EBITDA from offshore and onshore assets in operation to grow approx. 12% a year on average in 2020-2027, reaching DKK 35-40 billion in 2027. Ørsted · Prediction · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Ørsted | Promise | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted sets the ambition of reaching approx. 50 GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030, more than quadrupling its installed capacity over the next decade. Ørsted · Promise · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Ørsted | Prediction | 2 Jun 2021 | Approx. 90% on average of Ørsted's EBITDA for 2020-2027 will come from regulated or contract-based activities. Ørsted · Prediction · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ørsted | Promise | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted commits to reuse, recycle or recover 100% of blades from repowering or end-of-design-life decommissioning of its onshore and offshore wind farms. Ørsted · Promise · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ørsted | Promise | 2 Jun 2021 | Ørsted announced on 2 June 2021, with immediate effect, a ban on landfilling of wind turbine blades. Ørsted · Promise · 2 Jun 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Daniela Amodei | Factual | 28 May 2021 | Daniela Amodei said she and colleagues had been working during 2021 on Anthropic, which they announced on 2021-05-28. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 28 May 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Daniela Amodei | Factual | 28 May 2021 | Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. Daniela Amodei · Factual · 28 May 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 15 Apr 2021 | Amazon has more than 200 million Prime members worldwide. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 15 Apr 2021 | In 1997 Amazon had not yet invented Prime, Marketplace, Alexa or AWS. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 15 Apr 2021 | Amazon hired 500,000 employees in 2020 and now directly employs 1.3 million people worldwide. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Elon Musk | Factual | 31 Mar 2021 | Over 10,000 people are needed for Tesla's Giga Texas through 2022. Elon Musk · Factual · 31 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Elon Musk | Promise | 30 Mar 2021 | Elon Musk is donating $20M to Cameron County schools and $10M to the City of Brownsville for downtown revitalization, with details to follow the next week. Elon Musk · Promise · 30 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly false | Elon Musk | Promise | 28 Mar 2021 | SpaceX may fly a Starship on the afternoon of 29 March 2021. Elon Musk · Promise · 28 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 25 Mar 2021 | Earn.com was doing extremely well before it was sold to Coinbase. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 25 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Balaji Srinivasan | Promise | 25 Mar 2021 | 1729 will be a newsletter that pays subscribers, giving out at least $1,000 in Bitcoin prizes daily for completing tasks. Balaji Srinivasan · Promise · 25 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 25 Mar 2021 | The website blocknyt.com did quite well on Twitter and was a minor hit. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 25 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Promise | 25 Mar 2021 | Balaji Srinivasan will publish a post on what he calls the crypto credential. Balaji Srinivasan · Promise · 25 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 22 Mar 2021 | Ray Dalio has systemized his definition of a bubble into a "bubble indicator" that he monitors for each market. Ray Dalio · Factual · 22 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Promise | 14 Mar 2021 | A SpaceX Falcon booster will fly for the ninth time on the night of 14 March 2021. Elon Musk · Promise · 14 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly false | Elon Musk | Promise | 6 Mar 2021 | Tesla will add a "Download Beta" button for FSD Beta to the Service section of the car display in about 10 days from 6 March 2021. Elon Musk · Promise · 6 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Elon Musk | Promise | 6 Mar 2021 | Tesla is doubling the FSD Beta program size with software version 8.2 and will probably expand it about tenfold with version 8.3. Elon Musk · Promise · 6 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Elon Musk | Factual | 4 Mar 2021 | Starship SN10 landed intact (as of 4 March 2021). Elon Musk · Factual · 4 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Promise | 3 Mar 2021 | SpaceX will make a Starship test flight attempt about five minutes after this post on 3 March 2021. Elon Musk · Promise · 3 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false | Elon Musk | Promise | 3 Mar 2021 | SpaceX will attempt a Starship launch on 4 March 2021, with the window opening at 9am. Elon Musk · Promise · 3 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Elon Musk | Factual | 2 Mar 2021 | The city of Starbase, Texas is being created (as of 2 March 2021). Elon Musk · Factual · 2 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | The NYT journalist has not known about Slate Star Codex for three years, so he read the edited version of the Voldemort post that told people not to take it out of context. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | The NYT's original pitch was interest in how Scott Alexander warned early about the coronavirus pandemic and urged mask-wearing before it was standard advice. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 14 Feb 2021 | Far more people will read the NYT article than will read Scott Alexander's response, so the NYT's plan will probably work. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander's Contra Grant post states "My research suggests no average gender difference in ability". Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander said the NYT's characterisation was true only insofar as he once expressed agreement with an unrelated Charles Murray position: that telling poor people to learn to code is insufficient and a stable income is needed. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander received support from Steven Pinker, Larry Sanger, Jonathan Haidt, Liv Boeree and Yascha Mounk. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander was warned by people "in the know" that the NYT would publish something as negative as possible about him once it had an excuse. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | In early 2020, Scott Alexander learned the New York Times wanted to write an article about him. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mixed | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander wrote a 30,000-word condemnation of one of the right-wing figures named in the article on his blog a few years ago. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander met Peter Thiel once at a party, long before Trump was in the news, and exchanged about two sentences with him. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander has never personally been involved in the tech industry. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | The Gates Foundation has worked with manufacturers and partners to deliver vaccines cheaply at large scale, including to 822 million children in low-income countries through Gavi. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | COVID-19 was not the Gates Foundation's sole focus in 2020; it continued work across its other program areas. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | The Gates Foundation's malaria team had to rethink bed net distribution because mass distribution events were no longer safe during the pandemic. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | As of February 2021, the Gates Foundation had invested $1.75 billion in the fight against COVID-19. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Guidance | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla may track to growth of a fair bit above 50% in 2021, though it does not commit to it. Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false | Elon Musk | Prediction | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla Semi will likely be the first vehicle to achieve full autonomy. Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Promise | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla expects Giga Berlin and Giga Texas to start production in 2021. Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Prediction | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla expects to become the market leader in solar and then go far beyond it. Elon Musk · Prediction · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Guidance | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla believes it can maintain a growth rate above 50% per year for many years. Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Guidance | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla thinks it probably should be able to achieve 30% of targeted design cell capacity in 2022. Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Promise | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla is installing 200 gigawatt-hours a year of battery cell capacity in 2022. Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Promise | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla expects Cybertruck volume production to begin in 2022. Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Elon Musk | Promise | 27 Jan 2021 | Musk said Tesla was confident it would have excellent integration between Powerwall and Tesla Solar (retrofit and roof) before the end of 2021. Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Elon Musk | Promise | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla will price the new Model S $10,000 higher than the old model. Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Factual | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla achieved full-year 2020 free cash flow of nearly $2.8 billion after spending more than $3 billion on new factories and other expenditures. Elon Musk · Factual · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false | Elon Musk | Guidance | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla targets 100 gigawatt-hours of Tesla-produced cells in 2022. Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 21 Jan 2021 | Scott Alexander quit his day job so his employer would not be affected by the fallout. Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 21 Jan 2021 | Trolls posted Scott Alexander's real name in many places after he tried to protect his anonymity. Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Factual | 21 Jan 2021 | Scott Alexander lost a five-digit sum in advertising and Patreon fees. Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 21 Jan 2021 | Scott Alexander deleted his blog, which had 1,557 posts. Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 21 Jan 2021 | While trying to restore his blog, Scott Alexander accidentally sent about three hundred emails to each of five thousand people. Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Scott Alexander | Factual | 21 Jan 2021 | After Scott Alexander deleted his blog, articles about him appeared in the New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast. Scott Alexander · Factual · 21 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 29 Dec 2020 | A part of Fooled by Randomness was inspired by the psychology of Lebanese depositors who enjoyed steady and high returns. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 29 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Promise | 29 Dec 2020 | Tesla will give three months of Full Self-Driving free to all cars delivered in the final three days of 2020, with delivery and paperwork complete by midnight Dec 31. Elon Musk · Promise · 29 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 27 Dec 2020 | Taleb has finished the technical content of the Lindy chapter of his book. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 27 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Elon Musk | Factual | 25 Dec 2020 | The latest Tesla software update lets owners change the car horn sound to a goat, snake with saxophone, fart sound or holiday jingles. Elon Musk · Factual · 25 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 15 Dec 2020 | Buffett said he attended the first graduation of the Small Business Program, which he credited to Goldman Sachs, at LaGuardia Community College about 10 years before he spoke in December 2020. Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 15 Dec 2020 | Buffett graduated from two universities and attended neither graduation ceremony. Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
“This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail.”
Jeff Bezos, posting on X 11 October 2021 Post by @JeffBezos on X, 2021-10-11 (X)
Bezos said this was one of many stories telling Amazon all the ways it was going to fail.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
The second judge said resolved true; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
What would count as true or false
The proposition is that Bezos made this statement. True: a dated record (his social media post, a transcript or reliable reporting) shows that Bezos, on or around 11 October 2021, said in substance that a particular story (for example, an old article predicting Amazon's failure) was one of many stories telling Amazon how it would fail. Mostly true: the record shows he said it, with minor differences in wording or date. Mixed: the wording is accurately reported, but the speaker or context is materially different, for example he quoted someone else. Mostly false: the statement is a significant paraphrase that changes its meaning. False: the record shows that Bezos did not say it, or that it was said by someone else.
Evidence
- How massive Amazon grew during the pandemic, in 8 charts | Fortune Fortune · 18 October 2021
““This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail,” Bezos tweeted.”
Reasoning
Fortune is independent of Bezos, and its report [E3] attributes the exact wording to him as a tweet: "This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail." So the quote and the speaker match. The article is dated 18 October 2021, a week after the claim date. The quoted passage gives neither the tweet's date nor the story he was referring to, so it does not confirm "on or around 11 October." It does fit a tweet posted shortly before the article.
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “Bezos said this was one of many stories telling Amazon all the ways it was going to fail.” (said 11 October 2021). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_20a5760852ff, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_20a5760852ff
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