University of the People claims that Simone Biles is one of their students

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This framing is deceptive because NSC does not—and cannot—release enrollment details without the student’s consent.

That's not true: there's no need to ask for "the student's consent" It's clear that you've never actually conducted a search through the National Student Clearinghouse. When someone conducts a background check on you, no one is going to ask for your permission.

If what you're saying were true, then any scammer could just make up their credentials and deny consent to hide the truth But the point of the Clearinghouse is exactly the opposite: to verify credentials.

NSC added that, hypothetically, ‘the individual may have chosen to keep it private’ or ‘the school may have blocked this information.’

This is true: the individual may have chosen to keep it private or the school may have blocked this information …which is the exact opposite of what uopeople.edu claims If Simone Biles were truly an "ambassador" of the school, a "symbol" and so on, why are they hiding her in a public archive? It's quite unusual for an "ambassador" to go into hiding.

In fact, being in that database would be a legitimate and unquestionable way to prove that Simone Biles studied there.

However, there's no legal trace of Simone Biles anywhere. And the reason is very simple: she was never there.

Even the statements from Simone Biles, which you yourselves pointed to, don't say at all that she's studying there: they're simply invitations to listen to old promotional messages, most likely paid endorsements. I even came across an "interview" where the Shai Reshef is spouting his typical promotional nonsense about the school. In other words, the image of the girl was, and still is, being used as bait to get people to listen to his interview. Anyone can tell it's a scripted interview: plain and simple (misleading) advertising.

Moral of the story: uopeople.edu is not telling the truth.

To rely on it to attack UoPeople only undermines your own credibility.

Listen, this so-called "university of the people" is ridiculous anyway. There's no need to rely on anything.

And on top of that, this isn't the only fake news found on uopeople.edu! There are fake addresses and so on,
but in my view, the most serious and morally dishonest claim is the underlying narrative that the organization exists "to help Africa".

If the University of the people truly wanted to help Africa, it would build real schools, real hospitals, real food programs.
However, the University of the people does none of this.