The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 51 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
Friedberg: Alphabet spends one-tenth of Meta's revenue proportion on side bets
“So on a relative basis, Alphabet is spending One 10th of what Meta is per dollar earned or top line revenue earned on their other bets category.”
David Friedberg Oct 29, 2022 ▶ 58:42 E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
Assertion Supported
Chamath: Apple spent $396B on share buybacks while Meta spent $100B
“They've spent three hundred and ninety six billion dollars since 2016 to buy back stock. In the same time, Facebook has spent almost a hundred billion.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 29, 2022 ▶ 34:04 E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
Assertion Supported
Jason: Facebook funds its Oversight Board with $120M–$130M over six years
“They are funded by Facebook with 120 or one hundred thirty million dollars over the next six years. So they're getting like twenty million dollars a year to run this.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 23, 2021 ▶ 24:07 E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 460 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.