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Bill Ackman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You can kill someone by destroying their reputation. People commit suicide. People go into these deep, dark depression.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You can kill someone by destroying their reputation. People commit suicide. People go into these deep, dark depression.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You can kill someone by destroying their reputation. People commit suicide. People go into these deep, dark depression.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

It's not going to happen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

It's not going to happen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

It's not going to happen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

like nary young nares that are that this sends a signal to um that might scare them and you know journalism shouldn't scare aspiring young scientists the problem is the defamation law in the us is so favorable to the publisher to the media and so unfavorable uh to the victim And the incentives are all wrong.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

like nary young nares that are that this sends a signal to um that might scare them and you know journalism shouldn't scare aspiring young scientists the problem is the defamation law in the us is so favorable to the publisher to the media and so unfavorable uh to the victim And the incentives are all wrong.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

like nary young nares that are that this sends a signal to um that might scare them and you know journalism shouldn't scare aspiring young scientists the problem is the defamation law in the us is so favorable to the publisher to the media and so unfavorable uh to the victim And the incentives are all wrong.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

When you went from a paper version of journalism to digital, and you could track how many people click, and it's a medium that advertising drives the economics. And if you can show an advertiser more clicks, you can make more money. So a journalist is incentivized to write a story that will generate more clicks. How do you write a story that will generate more clicks?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

When you went from a paper version of journalism to digital, and you could track how many people click, and it's a medium that advertising drives the economics. And if you can show an advertiser more clicks, you can make more money. So a journalist is incentivized to write a story that will generate more clicks. How do you write a story that will generate more clicks?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

When you went from a paper version of journalism to digital, and you could track how many people click, and it's a medium that advertising drives the economics. And if you can show an advertiser more clicks, you can make more money. So a journalist is incentivized to write a story that will generate more clicks. How do you write a story that will generate more clicks?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You get a billionaire guy, and then you go after his wife. and you make a sensationalist story and you give them no time to respond, right? You know, look at the timing here. On the first story, you know, they gave us three hours.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You get a billionaire guy, and then you go after his wife. and you make a sensationalist story and you give them no time to respond, right? You know, look at the timing here. On the first story, you know, they gave us three hours.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You get a billionaire guy, and then you go after his wife. and you make a sensationalist story and you give them no time to respond, right? You know, look at the timing here. On the first story, you know, they gave us three hours.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

On the second one, the following day, 5.19 PM, the email comes in, not to Neri, not to her firm, but to my communications person who tracks us down by 5.30, you know, 10 minutes later. And they publish their story in 92 minutes. after and they sent us, we're gonna surface all these documents in our demand. Read the email they sent, whether you could even decipher it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

On the second one, the following day, 5.19 PM, the email comes in, not to Neri, not to her firm, but to my communications person who tracks us down by 5.30, you know, 10 minutes later. And they publish their story in 92 minutes. after and they sent us, we're gonna surface all these documents in our demand. Read the email they sent, whether you could even decipher it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

On the second one, the following day, 5.19 PM, the email comes in, not to Neri, not to her firm, but to my communications person who tracks us down by 5.30, you know, 10 minutes later. And they publish their story in 92 minutes. after and they sent us, we're gonna surface all these documents in our demand. Read the email they sent, whether you could even decipher it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

There was no, and by the way, there's a reason why academic institutions, when a professor is accused of plagiarism, why they have these very careful processes with multiple stages and they take, they can take a year or more because it depends on intent. Was this intentional? In order to be a crime, an academic crime, you gotta prove that they intentionally stole.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

There was no, and by the way, there's a reason why academic institutions, when a professor is accused of plagiarism, why they have these very careful processes with multiple stages and they take, they can take a year or more because it depends on intent. Was this intentional? In order to be a crime, an academic crime, you gotta prove that they intentionally stole.