“It would appear that Mark Zuckerberg himself, the third richest person in the world, worth over 200 billion dollars, signed off on this mass theft of intellectual property.”
Our reading:
It appears Mark Zuckerberg personally approved Meta's use of pirated books and articles for AI training.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
An opinion, a recommendation, or too vague to test. Listed, not scored.
Evidence up to . Checked .
Why
Marcus qualifies the assertion of Zuckerberg's personal approval with “It would appear” [statement marcus-meta-pirated-at-least-101-of-my-books-f5e7d6-o1]. The resolution contract excludes this hedged assertion from factual scoring [resolution contract v2].
Caveats
- No factual evidence review was conducted. This assessment establishes neither Zuckerberg's involvement nor the legality of the conduct.
- The statements about Zuckerberg's wealth and ranking fall outside the submitted proposition.
Evidence (0 items)
Claims like this aren’t scored, so there is no evidence to show.
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Observation
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- it would appear (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- The submitted proposition concerns Zuckerberg's personal approval of the use described in the surrounding passage.
- “It would appear” qualifies the assertion of personal approval.
- The supplied policy excludes this hedged inference from factual scoring.
- The incidental statements about Zuckerberg's wealth and ranking are not the proposition submitted for grading.
- No separate legal conclusion is inferred from the speaker's phrase “mass theft of intellectual property.”
We don’t grade claims like this. We only check the quote and who said it.
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Full record
Source and dates
Marcus on AI, Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others, paragraph 12.
- Said
- We read the source
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence up to
- Checked
We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2025-03-20.
Where it was said (1)
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: Marcus on AI, Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others
It would appear that Mark Zuckerberg himself, the third richest person in the world, worth over 200 billion dollars, signed off on this mass theft of intellectual property.
- Where
- paragraph 12
- Published
- 2025-03-20
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Versions
- Current: Can’t be checked. Evidence up to 2026-10-28.
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Held backBy us
A reviewer said our test wasn’t fair to what was actually said.