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why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Assertion Partly supported
Balaji Srinivasan: The Atlantic published an article advocating for invading Brazil
“Like, a great example is The Atlantic published this crazy piece calling for invading Brazil because they saw a photo of the Brazilian fires, ok?”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:18:10 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
Disclosure
Madrigal: Facebook drives an order of magnitude more traffic than Twitter
“Oh, an order of magnitude.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:44 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Disclosure
Madrigal: Facebook sends The Atlantic more traffic than the entire web combined
“And so we've been able to sort of back into a bunch of different types of experiments, and seeing natural experiments that are running and find that basically Facebook is sending more traffic to us than the entire rest of the internet that we can see combined.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:23 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Madrigal: Repackaging an Atlantic Facebook post boosted traffic to one million readers
“We had a story about tattoos and why, how tattoos work, like, within your body, and it's like a health story, and we sold it once on Facebook and I think on Wednesday, and kind of nothing happened. You know, maybe we're talking a few thousand unique visitors t…”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:57 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Assertion Supported
Skates: Americans with a regular local third place dropped post-2019
“In 2019, two-thirds of Americans said they had a favorite local place they went to regularly, but that two-thirds has actually dropped to just a little more than half.”
Anne Lee Skates Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 19:47 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
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