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Re:Snopes asks community for donations by graphitezepp on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:26PM (#14840566)
Anything Snopes like (aka used as an authority for truth) has a large chance of someday descending into a various parties squabbling for control situation. Not surprised if that is more or less the case.
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Re:Snopes asks community for donations by untog on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:03PM (#14841000)
Any citations for Snopes running "leftist propo"? I've seen that accusation leveled a few times in this thread and I'm yet to see anyone provide a concrete example.
Re:Snopes asks community for donations by distantsounds on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:10PM (#14841077)
Did you check Snopes? According to them, they are all over the map :)

http://www.snopes.com/info/notes/politics.asp

Re:Snopes asks community for donations by chasing on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:12PM (#14841089)
They fail to completely adhere to the right-wing Fox News counter-narrative. People caught up in that consider everything else "leftist propo."
Re:Snopes asks community for donations by Pxtl on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:34PM (#14841329)
Colbert said it best: "Reality has a well-known liberal bias".
Re:Snopes asks community for donations by rfrank on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:38PM (#14842954)
Is that why the reality of 2016 election results was such a surprise?
Re:Snopes asks community for donations by Pxtl on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:17PM (#14843623)
Since when did politics have anything to do with reality?
Re:Snopes asks community for donations by chasing on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:09PM (#14841067)
> For what it's worth, a lot of people like myself consider Snopes a source of leftist propo, not truth.

That's much more a reflection of your biases than theirs.

Re:Snopes asks community for donations by random28345 on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:07PM (#14841045)
> For what it's worth, a lot of people like myself consider Snopes a source of leftist propo, not truth.

Is this more "reality has a known liberal bias" sarcasm? Or as you saying the entire concept of objective truth is leftist propaganda?

Re:Snopes asks community for donations by fnordsensei on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:15PM (#14841137)
> For what it's worth [...]

It's not worth a lot, unless backed up by fact.

Re:Snopes asks community for donations by culturalzero on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:10PM (#14841639)
There's a really big difference between leftists and liberals, actually. A larger difference than between mainstream Republicans and the tea party, I'd say.

Most leftists camouflage as liberals in everyday conversation because their views are very extreme compared to what most have encountered.

Re:Snopes asks community for donations by mattnewton on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:08PM (#14841053)
I'm not sure why that follows- if anything, in my experience pandering propaganda tends to increase profits - just look at Breitbart on the right and Huffington post on the left. It drives clicks just as well and seems to be cheaper to produce than real investigative journalism.
Re:Snopes asks community for donations by mixedCase on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:28PM (#14842880)
As TFA mentions, the authors have been cut off from the ad revenue. So it may be producing a lot, but only the hosting company is getting it, if the article is to be believed.