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Glenn Greenwald

Host and Publisher, System Update · 2 appearances on the record.

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Glenn Greenwald is an investigative journalist, author, and host of System Update. He is known for publishing the Edward Snowden global surveillance revelations and co-founding The Intercept.

9statements → 7claims → 4claims resolved → 25%fully supported → 4.33/5average certainty → 3.44/5average debate potential → 34said about them ↓

1 supported 2 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 2 opinions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Glenn argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Greenwald: Nine of ten most populous countries refused to expel Russia
“Here are the top 20 countries by population, and the ones in yellow are the ones who refuse to support the UN resolution expelling Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, and you can see that it's nine out of the 10 Most populous countries”
Glenn Greenwald May 25, 2022 ▶ 18:52 #AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Greenwald: Over 10 million Americans voted for Obama twice, then Trump
“There are literally millions of voters in excess of ten million, depending on how you count, but definitely in excess of ten million. Voters who twice voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 12, and then in 2016 voted for Donald Trump.”
Glenn Greenwald May 28, 2022 ▶ 22:42 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
none yet certainty 3
50% certainty 4
50% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

222 words/min while actually speaking · 4.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Glenn Greenwald: only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 5,678 words across 2 episodes of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Glenn Greenwald said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Greenwald: Donald Trump saved MSNBC and The New York Times from bankruptcy
“Back in 2015, most of these news organizations were on the brink of collapse. Every MSNBC host was on the verge of being fired, you know, a couple of months away from being fired because nobody was watching. The New York Times had severe financial difficulty. …”
Glenn Greenwald May 28, 2022 ▶ 13:59 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
Assertion Contradicted
Greenwald: Over 10 million Americans voted for Obama twice, then Trump
“There are literally millions of voters in excess of ten million, depending on how you count, but definitely in excess of ten million. Voters who twice voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 12, and then in 2016 voted for Donald Trump.”
Glenn Greenwald May 28, 2022 ▶ 22:42 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
Opinion
Greenwald: Joe Rogan is the most influential media figure in America
“The most influential person in media, even though the mainstream part of the media never talks about him because he's not part of them is without question, Joe Rogan. He speaks to more people who are under, you know, 85 years old, which is the cable audience t…”
Glenn Greenwald May 28, 2022 ▶ 31:26 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
Assertion Supported
Greenwald: Nine of ten most populous countries refused to expel Russia
“Here are the top 20 countries by population, and the ones in yellow are the ones who refuse to support the UN resolution expelling Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, and you can see that it's nine out of the 10 Most populous countries”
Glenn Greenwald May 25, 2022 ▶ 18:52 #AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
Opinion
Greenwald: US foreign policy supports tyranny and props up despots
“The reality is the United States, if you look at what it's actually doing, which is going around the world, and it's always done this, supporting tyranny, not supporting democracy, propping up despots, not fighting them.”
Glenn Greenwald May 25, 2022 ▶ 24:29 #AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
Assertion Partly supported
Greenwald: Rogan named Bernie Sanders his favorite candidate 18 months ago
“Joe Rogan, who just 18 months ago said to millions of people that his favorite candidate running for president was Bernie Sanders, the socialist left-wing candidate.”
Glenn Greenwald May 28, 2022 ▶ 2:56 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
Assertion Partly supported
Greenwald: Polling shows over 90% of MSNBC and NYT consumers are Democrats
“You just look at polling data, that 95% of the people who watch MSNBC and 93% of the people who read the New York Times and trust it identify as Democrats.”
Glenn Greenwald May 28, 2022 ▶ 15:05 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Greenwald: 80% of Americans support mainstream Ukraine narrative
“80% of Americans, the entire bipartisan class in Washington of both parties, are essentially unified in support of the narrative that Antonio believes, in my opinion, with great sincerity.”
Glenn Greenwald May 25, 2022 ▶ 7:47 #AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Greenwald: Elon Musk voted for Obama and is a top ACLU donor
“And even now Elon Musk, who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 over Mitt Romney and is one of the largest donors to the ACLU.”
Glenn Greenwald May 28, 2022 ▶ 3:24 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks

The other half of the tape: Glenn Greenwald's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 33 times in 17 episodes on All-In. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most David Sacks 24Jason Calacanis 5Chamath Palihapitiya 4

Statements about Glenn Greenwald, by other people (1)

Disclosure
Calacanis: Speakers refused to attend All-In Summit due to political lineup
“One of the major challenges I had in this event Was certain people attending the event made some people in that group unwilling to come to the event. No offense, Keith. In other words, like, Keith, Sachs, you know, and then even Glenn Grunwald and... Greenwald…”
Jason Calacanis May 26, 2022 ▶ 26:53 #AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022

Every mention by year

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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 18 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
2021 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David S May 28, 2022 15m
#AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks May 25, 2022 14m
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