copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2022-06-02): LeBron James becomes first active NBA player to reach billionaire status, according to Forbes Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James is the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, according to Forbes Magazine.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2021-07-22): LeBron James recently achieved something no one has done before, he is now the first active player in NBA history to become a billionaire.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2021-11-09): An image shared on Facebook more than 900 times claims a Russian billionaire offered NBA player LeBron James and tennis player Serena Williams a billion dollars to have a "super athlete" child together. [...] A widely-shared post purportedly shows a screen grab of a news article about a Russian billionaire, identified as both Vladist and Vladir Sugarin, who offered a billion dollars to James and Williams to have a "super athlete" child. The headline reads, "White Billionaire Offers $1 Billion to Breed Lebron (sic) & Serena." "LeBron makes hundreds of millions. Serena makes hundreds of millions," one post credits Sugarin with saying. "Their super baby will make billions."
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2021-10-14): The Los Angeles Lakers superstar is one of the highest-paid athletes in the world, having landed a spot on the annual Forbes ranking every year since 2004. James has collected pretax earnings of more than $1 billion across his career, according to Forbes estimates. Still, the deal leaves James short of achieving billionaire status. Prior to the SpringHill sale, Forbes estimated James’ net worth to be roughly $850 million, valuing his stake—which is believed not to exceed 50%—at roughly $300 million. Previous reports predicted the SpringHill sale would value the company between $650 million and $750 million. James is on track to become only the second billionaire to emerge from pro basketball, chasing Michael Jordan’s post-playing-career achievement.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2022-06-02): LeBron James is the first active NBA player to become a billionaire LeBron James, the basketball legend with four NBA championships, three Olympic medals and 18 NBA All-Star appearances under his belt, is the first active NBA player to achieve billionaire status.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2022-06-02): LeBron James has become the first active NBA player to have a net worth of $1 billion, according to Forbes. [...] Reaching $1 billion is something James has been thinking about for some time. [...] Forbes' estimates for where James made the rest of his $1 billion:
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2022-06-02): LeBron James: NBA superstar on Forbes' billionaires list - Published [...] The American business magazine puts James' net worth at $1bn (£796.4m)., external
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2022-06-02): LeBron James may not be playing in the NBA Finals, but he's still having a good June. According to Forbes, the Lakers star now has an estimated net worth of $1 billion, making him the first active NBA player to become a billionaire.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2022-06-03): 'Forbes': LeBron James is the first active NBA player to become a billionaire 'Forbes': LeBron James is the first active NBA player to become a billionaire Following an incredibly lucrative year, LeBron James has officially become a billionaire. The breakthrough makes the 37-year-old player's nickname, King James, all the more fitting.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2016-07-13): On 12 July 2016, the web site Cream Bump Daily published an article reporting that a white billionaire had offered $1 billion for NBA star Lebron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to "breed": He wants a SUPER BABY! A White Billionaire Offers LeBbron and Serena $500 million a piece to BREED a baby... [...] This isn't the first time that a fake news article has claimed that a billionaire was offering major money for a child. In August 2015, a false rumor held that a billionaire was recruiting 1,000 women to have his children in an attempt to create the largest family ever.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2024-10-09): LeBron James - NBA Star b. Dec. 30, 1984 [...] Serena Williams - American Professional Tennis Player
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2024-07-24): With mum an all-time tennis great and dad Alexis Ohanian co-founder of Reddit, Olympia is already a budding fashionista with her own investment portfolio and a Miami mansion for a home
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2017-10-23): In the ranking of the 100 highest-paid athletes, there is just one woman - tennis star Serena Williams.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2021-05-19): After earning his third championship and Finals MVP, LeBron made it clear that he’s still at the top of his game in 2016 and brands agree. He made headlines in the sponsorship world earlier this year when he signed a lifetime deal with Nike, rumored to be worth over $1 billion. With ambitions to become the first billionaire athlete, LeBron’s endorsement earnings dwarf that of his $23.2 million per year salary (this has potential to balloon in conjunction with the NBA salary cap jump). His endorsement portfolio is a who’s who of major brands, including Nike, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Beats by Dre, and more. James has acted as the face of campaigns for many of these brands, but isn’t limiting his time on camera to commercials — He starred in a supporting role alongside Amy Schumer and Bill Haider in the film Trainwreck last summer and is set to star in the highly anticipated Space Jam 2. [...] 17. Serena Williams | WTA [...] Serena is the most dominant tennis player in the world and has owned the women’s game for some time, yet this is the first year she’s topped Forbes’ list of highest-paid female athletes. While her endorsement earnings are equal to that of Sharapova, Williams earned almost ten times what Sharapova earned in winnings. Williams’ endorsement portfolio is booming as she continues to dominate the circuit — expect her to capture the title of top female athlete endorser very soon.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2018-09-10): On Saturday’s U.S. Open women’s finals, a year after she almost died on the delivery-room table, tennis champion Serena Williams ran smack dab into one of the proud defenders of the patriarchy so affronted at a Black woman using her voice that he abused his authority to punish her by all the means he had. [...] But the events of Saturday night are bigger than Serena. It is evocative of a culture of misogyny and disrespect for women in sports that tennis perpetuates. The longstanding gap in prize money, unaddressed until her sister Venus, went to bat for women’s equality. The lack of accommodation for maternity leave, emblematic of that larger social issue of how women are expected to have children, but not be given any support for it—often penalized at work and "mommytracked" instead. Another player, Alize Cornet penalized for changing her shirt on-court, when no man has been. Serena’s French Open black bodysuit—which was created for her to address medical issues postpartum—was dismissed by the French Tennis Federation as "disrespectful" and then outlawed. There has been a constant policing of women’s bodies and a wash of respectability politics.
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2024-07-28): "I want to take a picture with a few guys from tennis and from NBA — LeBron James and Steph Curry," Angola handball player and flag bearer Azenaide Carlos said. Added Italian tennis player Sara Errani, when asked which athlete she wants to most meet: "LeBron James. Why? I don’t think there’s any need to add a reason, but for sure because I am a big basketball fan."
Claim: Claims a white Russian billionaire offered to pay $1 billion for NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis champion Serena Williams to have a child together (Viral post, 2020-01-01)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Serena Williams, 33, and Sister Palm Beach County before they were tweens. They jointly own a 10,687-sq.-ft. place at BallenIsles in Palm Beach Gardens. Serena also has an undeveloped lot at Bear's Club in Jupiter.
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2019-06-26): There is no evidence that Socrates made this statement. No sources from the philosopher’s era attribute these words to him.
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2019-07-11): FACT CHECK: Did Socrates Say, ‘When The Debate Is Lost, Slander Becomes The Tool Of The Losers’? An image shared on Facebook claims that ancient Greek philosopher Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." [...] While Socrates often engaged in philosophical debates, he did not author the statement attributed to him in the Facebook post. "I can affirm that no reliable source ever attributed this statement to Socrates," University of Michigan historian and Socrates expert Sara Ahbel-Rappe told The Daily Caller in an email. "Socrates wrote nothing, so we rely entirely on reports about Socrates from contemporary witnesses, mostly Plato but also Xenophon."
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2024-01-10): This quote suggests that when someone is losing an argument because their logic, reasoning, or evidence is weak, they may resort to slander, which is the act of making false statements to damage another person’s reputation. Instead of accepting defeat or trying to improve their argument, they choose to attack the character of their opponent. This is a diversion tactic to distract from the real issue at hand. [...] In today’s world, we can see this happening in various spheres of life, including politics, business, and social media. Politicians often resort to smear campaigns against their opponents when they can’t compete on policy issues. In business, companies may spread false rumors about their competitors instead of focusing on improving their own products or services. On social media, people may resort to trolling or cyberbullying when they can’t win an argument based on facts. From a personal development perspective, this quote can serve as a reminder to maintain our integrity in the face of defeat. Instead of resorting to slander or personal attacks, we should strive to improve our reasoning skills, learn from our mistakes, and accept that we can’t always be right. It encourages us to engage in healthy debates, respect others’ opinions, and value the truth above winning an argument.
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2012-10-24): There is no evidence that Socrates said this exact quote. The idea that when a debate is lost, the loser resorts to slander is a common theme in discussions about argumentative tactics but is not attributed directly to Socrates.
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2023-12-06): It appears that the widespread attribution to Socrates of the 'When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers' bit of wisdom only began after 2008, with the rise of quote-sharing via social media memes: 'When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.' -Socrates. [...] So as far as we can tell, the phrase "when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser" emerged roughly around 2008 and appears to have no traceable history prior to that. Despite its popularity on social media, no one has ever found a single direct link to any material attributed to Socrates matching the quote. Its abrupt appearance and lack of historical support suggests that Socrates' signature was tacked to the commentary to give it an air of ancient wisdom.
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2018-09-25): No, Socrates didn’t call slander the 'tool of the losers' A viral image on Facebook quotes Socrates as saying, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." [...] Snopes, "Did Socrates say: ‘When debate is lost, slander becomes tool of the loser’?," April 12, 2016
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2014-06-03): John Fugelsang ✔@JohnFugelsang https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/418377601804025856 'When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.' -Socrates. [...] So far as we can tell, the phrase "when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser" emerged roughly around 2008 and appears to have no traceable history prior to that. Despite its popularity on social media, no one has ever found a single direct link to any material attributed to Socrates matching the quote. Its abrupt appearance and lack of historical support suggests that Socrates’ signature was tacked to the commentary to give it an air of ancient wisdom.
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2024-08-07): During the first and only debate that Donald Trump had with President Joe Biden, the fact-checkers certified that Trump told thirty-four lies in ninety minutes. Yet, his supporters hung on to his every word/lie. Now that the Democratic Party has persuaded Joe Biden not to run in the 2024 election, Trump has turned his lying ways toward Vice President Kamala Harris. During a recent interview at the conference of the National Association of Black Journalists, he was fact-checked in real-time. His interviewer, ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott, pushed back every time Trump told a lie. He then resorted to insulting Rachel Scott, a Black female, who was interviewing him. Trump called her "disgraceful," "hostile," and "rude." He then went on with his lying and insulting ways. Socrates once stated that, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." Socrates was born in 470 BCE and died in 399 BCE. Yet, he knew that there were people like Trump who would be in the public’s eye.
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2023-11-09): In that translation, Plato attributed mentions of "slander" or slanderous speech to Socrates several times. In another translation, Socrates is characterized as lashing out at innumerable ill-speakers against him, blaming envy and slander for his prosecution: [...] However, the first iteration of the "when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers" attributed to Socrates we located was from May 2006, on a personal website. Prior to that, we were unable to locate a version of the quote attributed to anyone at all. [...] - Socratic problem - The Cambridge Companion to Socrates; The Rise and Fall of the Socratic Problem - Plato’s Apology of Socrates - Apology By Plato - Quotable Quote: Socrates "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2019-08-22): The quote reads: "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." [...] "It bears a vague resemblance to some things that Plato’s Socrates says in the Gorgias about the different methods of the philosopher and the rhetorician, but there is no direct reference to losing a debate, or to the losers using slander. There is only the general claim that philosophers use arguments and rhetoricians use persuasion (slander, not mentioned, being one technique of persuasion)." Prof Benitez did a check of Plato’s uses of διαβολή (diabolē) and λοιδορία (loidoria) – the two most common Ancient Greek words for slander – and there was "nothing approaching" the purported quote in "anything Plato’s Socrates says".
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2019-09-22): Socrates does talk a lot about slander, but he is usually worried about how slander prejudices audiences against speakers before a debate even happens (he says this in the Apology). In this case, the concern is the opposite of that in the spurious quotation: the quotation fears that debate devolves into name-calling and away from fact whereas Socrates is actually worried that previous name-calling and unquestioned assumptions makes it impossible for his audiences to apprehend the facts of a case.
Claim: Claims Socrates said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-26)
Evidence (2024-05-27): In suggesting that labelling was a sign of intellectual laziness or defeat, it was Socrates who said, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."
Claim: Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin fired two players for kneeling during national anthem (Viral post, 2023-09-06)
Evidence (2023-09-06): The claim is inaccurate. There is no evidence this occurred.
Claim: Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin fired two players for kneeling during national anthem (Viral post, 2023-09-06)
Evidence (2023-09-27): On Sept. 6, 2023, the website SpaceXMania published an article positing that Mike Tomlin, the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, had fired to players for kneeling during the national anthem: BREAKING: Mike Tomlin Suspends Two Steelers Players for Anthem Kneeling In an unprecedented twist in the NFL saga, the Pittsburgh Steelers' esteemed coach, Mike Tomlin, set the sports world abuzz. After two key players (names withheld for privacy) knelt during the national anthem, they were promptly dismissed from the team.
Claim: Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin fired two players for kneeling during national anthem (Viral post, 2023-09-06)
Evidence (2023-08-22): The Dunning-Kruger Times published two more stories, one that claimed, "NFL Mediator Sides With Coach Tomlin: Kneeling Players Can Be Benched or Even Fired," (archived here) and "Coach Tomlin Cuts Pittsburgh's Last Kneeler: 'Go Protest Somewhere Else'" (archived here). Both are not true and clearly satire. All three articles were published in 2022 but gained popularity again as the football season began in August 2023, with other sites picking up the articles but failing to label them as satire. A Google search of the key words "Pittsburgh Coach Tomlin Cuts Player Who Kneeled" yields zero matching results but does return a 2020 ESPN article with the exact opposite information, titled "Pittsburgh Steelers players who kneel will have Mike Tomlin, organization's support," as well as other news stories of the coach supporting players that took a knee on the field. The article titled, "Steeler's Mike Tomlin Says No More Kneeling On His Field: 'You're Athlete's Not Activists'" cites "assistant place-kicker coach" Joe Barron:
Claim: Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin fired two players for kneeling during national anthem (Viral post, 2023-09-06)
Evidence (2023-10-05): CLAIM: NFL coaches unanimously voted to ban kneeling during the national anthem. [...] THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing a screenshot of a headline falsely claiming that NFL coaches voted to ban players from kneeling during "The Star-Spangled Banner," a gesture that has been used by professional athletes to protest injustice. "NFL Coaches Unanimously Vote to Ban Anthem Kneeling Permanently," reads text below a photo of Pittsburgh Steelers’ coach Mike Tomlin, Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy, and former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway.
Claim: Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin fired two players for kneeling during national anthem (Viral post, 2023-09-06)
Evidence (2020-06-23): PITTSBURGH -- Players who choose to kneel during the national anthem will have the support of coach Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, the coach said on a video conference call Tuesday. [...] Like many NFL teams, Tomlin and the Steelers last navigated these discussions in 2017 when some players echoed quarterback Colin Kaepernick's 2016 actions by kneeling during the anthem to raise awareness of police brutality -- a move that was lambasted by President Donald Trump. In addition to saying in a speech that NFL owners should "get that son of a bitch off the field" if a player kneeled, he said they should fire or suspend players who protested the national anthem. That year, the Steelers stressed unity and wanted to stay in the locker room together during the national anthem at Chicago's Soldier Field in late September, and the typically football-focused Tomlin said his team "wouldn't play politics."
Claim: Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin fired two players for kneeling during national anthem (Viral post, 2023-09-06)
Evidence (2023-11-03): On Sept. 9, 2023, SpaceXMania.com published an article claiming that Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin announced that he thought players who kneeled during the national anthem "hated America." The post was recirculated on the site's Facebook page on Nov. 1, garnering likes and comments supporting Tomlin's purported statements. Mike Tomlin: Anthem Kneelers "Hate America" and Will Be Fired On Spot [...] Snopes has fact-checked several claims similar to this one — that Tomlin benched two anthem kneelers "on the spot," and that he threatened to fire them. We found both claims were false and originated from SpaceXMania, which also tagged them as satire.