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Daniel Zhang would then lead Alibaba as the current executive chairman.
This is outdated. Alibaba’s current chairman is Joe Tsai, not Daniel Zhang.
Full reasoning
Alibaba’s own leadership page says Joe Tsai currently serves as Chairman. It also states that Tsai was executive vice chairman until September 2023, which means Daniel Zhang is no longer Alibaba’s current chairman/executive chairman. So describing Daniel Zhang as the current executive chairman is incorrect.
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- JOE TSAI - Alibaba Group
Joe Tsai ... was chief financial officer until 2013, our executive vice chairman until September 2023 and currently serves as our Chairman.
In September 2018, Ma started the Jack Ma Foundation
The foundation was not started in September 2018. Credible sources state Jack Ma founded the Jack Ma Foundation in 2014.
Full reasoning
Multiple credible sources give an earlier founding date for the Jack Ma Foundation. Tokyo College’s official biography for Jack Ma says he founded the Jack Ma Foundation in 2014. TIME’s 2025 profile of Ma likewise says “His Jack Ma Foundation, founded in 2014”. That directly contradicts the statement that he started the foundation in September 2018.
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- MA Yun (Jack MA) - Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
Mr. Ma founded the Jack Ma Foundation in 2014, and its efforts are focused on supporting education, entrepreneurship and environmental protection...
- TIME100 Philanthropy: Jack Ma
His Jack Ma Foundation, founded in 2014, focuses its efforts on education, entrepreneurship, medical and environmental protection...
From May 1, 2023 to October 31, 2024, Ma has been an invited professor at Tokyo College, a research institute at the University of Tokyo.
Those dates are wrong. Reuters reported Ma’s 2023 appointment ran only through the end of October 2023, and Tokyo College’s official profile lists his current period of stay as May 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025.
Full reasoning
The University of Tokyo announced that Jack Ma joined Tokyo College on May 1, 2023. Reuters reported at the time that the appointment term finished at the end of October and was renewable annually. Tokyo College’s current official member profile now lists Ma’s Period of stay as May 1, 2024 - October 31, 2025. That means the article’s single uninterrupted date range May 1, 2023 to October 31, 2024 does not match the university’s own published dates.
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- Alibaba founder Jack Ma takes up Tokyo University visiting professorship (Reuters via Yahoo News)
The appointment term for China's best-known entrepreneur finishes at the end of October, but the contract is renewable on an annual basis, the university said.
- MA Yun (Jack MA) - Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
Period of stay May 1, 2024 - October 31, 2025