Latest Corrections
Browse completed fact-check investigations. Each correction identifies empirically incorrect or unambiguously misleading claims in online posts.
Substack Mar 5, 2026 at 03:15 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/mantic-monday-groundhog-day
- Perpetual futures were proposed decades before crypto markets—Robert J. Shiller proposed a “perpetual futures contract” in a 1992 Cowles Foundation discussion paper.
- Augur’s token sale that raised “over $5 million” happened in 2015 (not the late 2010s), and Augur did launch a main network in July 2018.
Substack Mar 5, 2026 at 03:08 PM
www.richardhanania.com/p/labor-freedom-is-the-best-explanati...
- German law does not generally guarantee automatic severance pay for redundancies; the commonly cited “half a month per year” amount is only owed in specific situations (e.g., when the employer offers it under §1a KSchG and the employee does not file a dismissal-protection claim).
- In Germany, there is no legal obligation for a company to “create” a works council; employees have the right to elect one, but the law does not require that one be established.
- Germany’s “social selection” (Sozialauswahl) requirement is tied to the Dismissal Protection Act applying in establishments with more than 10 employees (and other conditions), not to making “redundancies over ten employees.”
Wikipedia Mar 5, 2026 at 06:19 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
- OpenAI’s “capped” model capped investors’/employees’ *returns* (e.g., 100×), not the company’s profits themselves.
X Mar 5, 2026 at 05:56 AM
x.com/RatOrthodox/status/2029306660167270411
- Leaked OpenAI offboarding documents show the ultra-restrictive NDA was signed by COO Brad Lightcap (and other exit paperwork by other executives), not by Sam Altman personally—though Altman did sign separate incorporation documents related to equity authority.
Wikipedia Mar 5, 2026 at 05:50 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Aschenbrenner
- Reporting on this incident indicates the breach happened earlier in 2023, and was disclosed internally in April 2023—so the access was not first gained in April.
- Columbia College (where Aschenbrenner was the 2021 valedictorian) awards a B.A., not a B.S., so listing his degree as “(BS)” is incorrect.
X Mar 5, 2026 at 05:34 AM
x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/2029364319847063798
- The “10 million” figure commonly cited for the Biden years refers to CBP/DHS *encounters* (events), not 10 million people successfully entering and remaining in the U.S.; many encounters resulted in expulsions/deportations and the same person can be counted multiple times.
Wikipedia Mar 5, 2026 at 05:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_law_of_the_United_State...
- A bill does not need a two‑thirds vote in each chamber to become law; a simple majority passes a bill, and two‑thirds is only required to override a presidential veto.
- United States v. Lopez (1995) struck down the Gun‑Free School Zones Act provision—not the entire Crime Control Act of 1990.
- Article I, Section 6’s “treason, felony and breach of the peace” exception applies to the privilege from arrest, not to the Speech or Debate protection for statements.
- Federal patent and copyright infringement claims generally cannot be brought in state court; U.S. law gives federal district courts exclusive jurisdiction over such claims.
- Clinton v. Jones (1997) did not curtail immunity for a president’s official acts; it held there is no immunity (or required deferral) for suits based on unofficial conduct, while Nixon v. Fitzgerald recognizes absolute immunity from damages for official acts.
- The Fourth Amendment does not require a warrant for all searches or all arrests; the Supreme Court has upheld warrantless arrests based on probable cause and recognizes multiple exceptions to the warrant requirement.
- State-established churches in the U.S. were not fully disestablished by 1820; Massachusetts continued state support for Congregationalism until 1833.
LessWrong Mar 5, 2026 at 05:24 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/FSGfzDLFdFtRDADF4/openai-s-surveilla...
- FISA and the National Security Act do exclude undocumented immigrants and most nonimmigrant visa holders from the term “U.S. person,” but they do *not* define “U.S. person” as covering *only* citizens and lawful permanent residents; they also include certain U.S. corporations and U.S.-based associations.
Wikipedia Mar 5, 2026 at 05:10 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_(U.S._Constitution)
- The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Congress’s power (under the Commerce Clause) to prohibit even purely local cultivation/possession of marijuana; federal marijuana prohibition does not require a constitutional amendment to be constitutionally valid under current Supreme Court precedent.
Wikipedia Mar 5, 2026 at 03:26 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Islamic_jurisprudence
- This is incorrect: there are other primary Shi'ite uṣūl al‑fiqh texts available in English translation (e.g., Ayatollah Ja'far Subhani’s *al‑Mujaz fi Usul al‑Fiqh*).
LessWrong Mar 5, 2026 at 01:54 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/hurF9uFGkJYXzpHEE/a-non-magical-expl...
- Epstein did not serve 12 months of his Florida 2008 sentence; multiple sources (including a BoP psychological reconstruction) state he served 13 months of an 18‑month sentence (with work release).
- The “15-page psychological report” was produced within the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BoP), not by the FBI or DOJ’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Wikipedia Mar 5, 2026 at 01:26 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayatollah
- Ibn Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī) died in 1325 CE (726 AH), not 1374.
- The Arabic word الأنعام (al-anʿām) means livestock/cattle, not “mankind”; “mankind” is الأنام (al-anām).
Wikipedia Mar 4, 2026 at 10:11 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altiplano
- Lake Titicaca is not the largest lake in South America; it is widely described as the continent’s second-largest, after Lake Maracaibo (by surface area).
Wikipedia Mar 4, 2026 at 09:59 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Air_Force
- Gerardo Zabala Álvarez is not the commander of the Bolivian Air Force; he has been reported as the (interim) commander-in-chief of Bolivia’s Armed Forces, while the Bolivian Air Force’s commander has been Juan Jesús Ballester Aguirre (interim).
Wikipedia Mar 4, 2026 at 09:52 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- The Montana-class battleships were authorized under the 1940 “Two-Ocean Navy” building program (authorized July 19, 1940), not approved in 1939 via the Naval Act of 1938.
Wikipedia Mar 4, 2026 at 08:17 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood:_Secrets_and_Lies_in_a_Silic...
- Major trade reports about the 2021 Apple Studios "Bad Blood" film say Adam McKay will write and direct it, not Vanessa Taylor.
Wikipedia Mar 4, 2026 at 07:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata
- The La Plata (Río de la Plata) drainage basin is about 17% of South America’s area (≈3.1 million km²), not “about one fourth.”
Wikipedia Mar 4, 2026 at 04:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America
- The Panama Canal officially opened to shipping on August 15, 1914—not in 1913.
- NAFTA was replaced when USMCA entered into force on July 1, 2020 (it was signed in 2018, but didn’t replace NAFTA then).
Wikipedia Mar 4, 2026 at 04:32 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America
- The Panama Canal officially opened to shipping on August 15, 1914—not in 1913.
- NAFTA was replaced when USMCA entered into force on July 1, 2020 (it was signed in 2018, but didn’t replace NAFTA then).
Substack Mar 3, 2026 at 04:58 PM
www.resilientcyber.io/p/claude-code-security-a-reasoned-take...
- BaxBench reports the best model reaches 62% functional correctness—not that 62% are incorrect or insecure. Combining their results implies about 69% are either incorrect or exploitable, not 62%.
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