Coca-Cola and scholarships: yet another clickbait fake partnership

[question]

There is no reasoning with "question." The only thing they ever post are speculative, unsourced and poorly sourced claims calling UoPeople's legitimacy into question.

Let me drop a minor bomb.

"question" was a professor at University of the People.

Let me drop slightly larger bomb.

Evidence suggests he was hired in early 2015 and fired around May 2015. Why? Fake credentials. He claimed a degree from Princeton. Turns out, his degree was from Universal Life Church.

I can provide the receipts. Try as he might, the Internet never forgets.

Good to know! To teach at the University of the People, you need to have a fake degree from the University of Life Church 

It's yet another piece of evidence that the University of the People has no professors at all, and that the so-called "instructors", using fake credentials, are just a ploy to hire underpaid staff off the books.

[TINASAM]

Did you get more screen time at the facility, Question?

[bluebooger]

> you need to have

you don't understand the meaning of the word "need"

[ghostlypast]

Good to know! To teach at the University of the People, you need to have a fake degree from the University of Life Church 

It's yet another piece of evidence that the University of the People has no professors at all, and that the so-called "instructors", using fake credentials, are just a ploy to hire underpaid staff off the books.

Perhaps, but your fake credentials were reported by the Italian media in 2018.

https://web.archive.org/web/201803161447...018-02-20/

And what does this have to do with the topic?

The domains for Evidence Based Review, UoPeople Review, UoPeople Reviews, and Online Scams UK were all once the hosts of articles attacking the university for "fake partnerships" and fake scholarships. And now all of them point directly to content about the university on the Selvaggia Lucarelli Blog.

So, if you are he, then it's clear no one can trust your assessment of the university. You have a history of lying.

[question]

I can see that all your posts are aimed at diverting attention through personal attacks, even going so far as to pin on me the identities of people you appear to be obsessed with.

In any case, if what you're saying is true, I'd say it was a brilliant test  Basically, that guy showed up at the University of the People claiming he had a degree from the Universal Life Church, and they hired him as a professor!  Hilarious  We have the proof that this online university is a total farce.

[ghostlypast]

even going so far as to pin on me the identities of people you appear to be obsessed with

Let's connect the dots.

Your first post connects the dots with two articles on your website.

in the past UoPeople had already used tricks of this kind: from a partnership with "Harvard Business School"

The latest claim is that "UoPeople has a new partnership with Harvard University", which is another blatant attempt by uopeople.edu to mislead people by using Harvard's name and logo, even though this Israeli diploma mill has nothing to do with Harvard. To "prove" this partnership, uopeople.edu links to hbs.edu.

And the second dot.

in the past UoPeople had already used tricks of this kind: from a partnership with ... "our famous student Simone Biles"

Simone Biles worked for a UoPeople advertising campaign from February 2018 to February 2019 under a one-year contract. However, UoPeople continues to use these ads, making them misleading and deceptive.

Your second post in the thread connects another dot with another article on your website.

this is very reminiscent of when Shai Reshef claimed to have formed a partnership in Israel with Pope Francis. Too bad the Pope had never even heard of the University of the People 

In the same page, Shai Reshef uploaded a picture claiming that "Pope Francis praises University of the People". However, the image only shows the Pope shaking hands with Reshef—something that happens whenever anyone approaches the Pope and asks for a handshake, such as after a Papal audience or Mass. Claiming that this simple handshake equates to Pope Francis "praising" University of the People is completely ridiculous. The Pope has no idea what University of the People is, and the official Vatican network (vatican.va) never mentions Shai Reshef or UoPeople.

Your third post connects "yet another" couple of dots with your website.

It's yet another piece of evidence that the University of the People has no professors at all

Actually, UoPeople, which has no professors and no video classes, uses more sophisticated tricks to "recognize experiences": for example, you can buy college credits from sophia.org and then transfer them to UoPeople.

And the fifth dot.

using fake credentials

Besides, stating that "the volunteer instructors were fired because their credentials were fake" clearly proves that University of the People "hires" instructors with fraudulent credentials without conducting even the most basic background checks. On the other hand, we are certain that no UoPeople professors use fraudulent credentials, just because UoPeople has no professors at all!

Because a couple means three, here's a sixth dot.

are just a ploy to hire underpaid staff off the books

The company is based in Tel Aviv and employs several Israeli staff members, while many other workers, misleadingly labeled as "volunteers", are underpaid and work remotely off the books from countries with cheap labor, including Nigeria, India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Lately, most of the activity seems to be concentrated in India.

This sounds similar to a post you made in another thread.

In fact, administrative emails come either from India or from Africa, and they are often poorly written and full of grammatical errors. One can therefore assume that, although the headquarters are in Israel, very little staff is actually based there, since the majority are located in India and Africa. The choice of India or Africa appears to be driven by cost considerations, given that labor is much cheaper there.

So, that's seven dots. What about a post from a few months ago?

On the other hand, the University of the people (with its spamm… Er "ambassadors") is the only website in the world that makes itself ridiculous with such absurd behavior.

Therefore, when you come across a self-described ambassador (who basically is a spammer) from the University of the People promoting their "tuition-free American university", and you want to have some fun and catch them off guard, just ask them: "Where is your university located?" As soon as they reply "in California", you can point out there is no university at the address they give you.

Or a little further back.

The fact that it calls itself "tuition-free" makes me doubtful. In reality, paying the fees is just another way of paying tuition, even if it's not in the traditional sense. "Cheap tuition" (and not "tuition-free") would be more honest.

At first, uopeople.edu was still free, maintaining its "non-profit" status, but that didn't last long. Soon, Reshef came up with a deliberately misleading advertising slogan: "Tuition-free university". This phrasing was deceptive: sure, there was no "tuition", but only because uopeople.edu was never an actual school in the first place.

You cover the same topics. You use the same words. You use the same punctuation. You use the same tone. You use the same poor reasoning. You use the same lies.

The conclusion is obvious. You are the same person. This makes it clear that you're not trustworthy. Your ethos is utterly obliterated.

Since we cannot rely on your ethos, what evidence or reasoning can you provide to support your claim that the partnership between Coca-Cola and UoPeople is fake?

[UoBoomer]

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The conclusion is obvious. You are the same person. This makes it clear that you're not trustworthy. Your ethos is utterly obliterated.

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Or he has created his own Generative AI Bot... Nice detective work btw..

[ghostlypast]

Or he has created his own Generative AI Bot...

Technology is often framed as a force multiplier. I suppose he could set up an army of anti-UoPeople agentic bots all trained on his inane ramblings.

Nice detective work btw..

OSINT is my vibe, but he makes it pretty easy.

• Say hello, english.man on DegreeInfo
  
• Say hello, Jo Usenet and several other aliases on Google Groups
  
• Say hello, several Italian based 1-star reviews on TrustPilot between Oct 2020 and Feb 2021
  
• Say hello, joanna95 on City-Data
  
• Say ciao, Gmacar on Università.com, where posters immediately know who he is by his username
  
• Say hello, Gmacar on Wikipedia, before he went nuclear on UoPeople
  

The easiest way to find him is the "PO Box" complaint. There are a few people out there who repeat this nonsense, but most of the time it's just him yelling into the search engine indexes for me to find.

I often wonder if he had a meltdown when UoPeople finally earned RA after years of going after them for being NA only.

Hey question, do me a favor. Give me an honorary mention on your website. That'd be awesome!

[question]

And why don't you post the link to the Coca-Cola site you claim to have? For the record, we are talking about the alleged "partnership" with Coca Cola.

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Since you're on a roll, why don't you drop the link to that Simone Biles partnership too?

PS: make sure they're official links, not just University of the People fluff.

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And for the record, I'm reading the reviews you posted and having a good laugh. You claim they're mine, I actually have no idea where they came from, but they're hilarious: basically, it's just people protesting against University of the People, and you're the one getting upset I'm copying this one below because it's pure gold:

Some people consider this "university" a scam. By the way, "University of the People" has a ridiculous English name just because it is not located in the US. It is an Israeli for-profit company, which also uses a PO box in Pasadena, California, claiming they are "based in California". It is no accident they have never had a real phone number (apart from a virtual number, and nobody ever answers the "virtual phone").
See also https://www.uopeople.review

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The funny thing is, you're coming here asking me why this latest partnership is fake, when you're the one who still has to prove it's real

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You've shared dozens of links so far but still nothing from Coca-Cola actually announcing a partnership.

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And those past proclamations were fake too. The partnerships with McGill and Edinburgh someone mentioned above were just a PR stunt, given that no one could actually use them. If memory serves, it was McGill itself that announced the partnership: it's a pity, then, that they went on to reject degrees from the University of the people

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The moral of the story is: a huge number of people were swindled. They expected their purchased degrees from the University of the People to get them into McGill "according to our partnership", only to find out they weren't recognized

[question]

That being said, you haven't answered any of my questions regarding the University of the People's alleged partnerships, other than vague phrases like "it’s a lie", "it's not true"... There is a complete lack of evidence for these partnerships, aside from your own press releases.