Max Chafkin

Features Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek · 1 appearance on the record.

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Max Chafkin is a technology and business journalist at Bloomberg Businessweek who has written for The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Inc. He is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, an investigative biography detailing the venture capitalist's career and political influence.

27statements → 16claims → 11claims resolved → 91%fully supported → 3.81/5average certainty → 2.93/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

10 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 16 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

16 assertions · 9 opinions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 16 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 11 are resolved, and 5 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 Max 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
Peter Thiel acted as patron to pro-dictatorship blogger Curtis Yarvin
“He's, you know, been a patron to this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who is you know better known as a mold bug, but you know, this blogger who is whose big idea basically is, is a dictatorship.”
Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 ▶ 1:02:05 Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin

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Everything Max Chafkin said on Big Technology that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Chafkin: Thiel was first speaker to acknowledge being gay at RNC
“First time they acknowledged it on stage. Cause there actually had been one other, there had been another instance. But that That person was booed during the, you know, during the during the speech. And Teal not only wasn't booed, but he got a standing ovation…”
Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 ▶ 1:06:28 Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
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Chafkin: Palantir Won Major Army Contracts and Google's Project Maven
“Did Palantir, Palantir got a an eight hundred million dollar army contract, another four hundred million dollar contract. And he took over this project maven from Google. That's another forty million bucks a year.”
Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 ▶ 1:10:19 Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
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Chafkin: Peter Thiel Secretly Acquired New Zealand Citizenship
“The acquisition of citizenship in New Zealand, which we haven't touched on, but he secretly acquired citizenship.”
Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 ▶ 1:12:09 Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin Sep 21, 2021 51m
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