Michael Shellenberger

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Michael Shellenberger is an author and investigative journalist known for books such as San Fransicko and Apocalypse Never. He was one of the primary journalists who reported on the Twitter Files and holds an academic chair at the University of Austin.

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4 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Michael 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
Shellenberger: Twitter found minimal foreign influence from FBI-flagged accounts
“You'll repeatedly, you'll Roth would respond to FBI that, yeah, we looked into these accounts that you mentioned, and they were all very low follower accounts with very little activity. So they just weren't finding very much foreign influence on the Twitter pl…”
Michael Shellenberger Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:30:04 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ

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Everything Michael Shellenberger 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
Shellenberger: FBI constantly pushed legal boundaries requesting Twitter user info
“FBI was constantly pushing the boundaries of what is legally and ethically acceptable in terms of requesting information.”
Michael Shellenberger Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:25:11 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
Disclosure
Shellenberger: Hunter Biden laptop turned out to be authentic
“I really didn't think that that laptop was what they said it was, and it turned out that it was.”
Michael Shellenberger Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:28:23 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
Assertion Partly supported
Shellenberger: Living unsheltered on the street is three times deadlier than staying in a shelter
“Three times more people die living outside as an unsheltered homeless person rather than live, than being in a shelter.”
Michael Shellenberger Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:33:44 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
Assertion Supported
Shellenberger: Twitter found minimal foreign influence from FBI-flagged accounts
“You'll repeatedly, you'll Roth would respond to FBI that, yeah, we looked into these accounts that you mentioned, and they were all very low follower accounts with very little activity. So they just weren't finding very much foreign influence on the Twitter pl…”
Michael Shellenberger Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:30:04 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
Assertion Partly supported
Shellenberger: San Francisco gives $600-$700 monthly cash payments to homeless individuals
“San Francisco pays cash well for a payment of somewhere between six to 700 dollars. Plus you can get two dollars in food stamps.”
Michael Shellenberger Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:31:54 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ

The other half of the tape: Michael Shellenberger's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 11 times in 8 episodes on All-In. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Michael Shellenberger, by other people (1)

Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: 99% of homeless individuals suffer from mental illness or addiction
“Schellenberger's done the work. It's like he said, 99% of the people he talks to, it's either mental illness or addiction, but we keep using this word homeless to describe the problem.”
David Sacks Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 17:09 E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ Dec 24, 2022 5m
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