Snopes is in danger of closing its doors due to a business dispute

Re:Snopes is in danger of closing its doors due to a busines... by danjoc on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:49AM (#14848659)

>As you yourself noted, most people don't read down the page.

"They did it first" isn't a defense. If I slapped my sibling and told mother "They did it first" I still earned punishment.

What you're defending isn't defensible. Snopes clearly lied by using the false rating here.

>They are not saying everything in The Source story is false.

Yes, in fact, they are:

http://www.snopes.com/ratings/

"This rating indicates that the primary elements of a claim are demonstrably false."

The Roof situation is best described by their Mixture rating. Snopes specifically chose the false rating despite elements of truth to this story.

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Re:Snopes is in danger of closing its doors due to a busines... by zimpenfish on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:58AM (#14848748)

I might be missing something but isn't “Police Chief Says Dylann Roof Was Taken to Burger King Shortly After Arrest.” wholly false? Where's the element of truth?

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Re:Snopes is in danger of closing its doors due to a busines... by danjoc on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:35PM (#14849162)

Dylan Roof was fed by police: True

Dylan Roof was fed by police shortly after arrest: True

Dylan Roof was fed fast food by police shortly after arrest: True

Dylan Roof was fed Burger King fast food by police shortly after arrest: True

Dylan Roof was fed Burger King fast food by police shortly after arrest at Burger King: False

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Re:Snopes is in danger of closing its doors due to a busines... by zimpenfish on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:58AM (#14854576)

They fact-checked "Police Chief Says Dylann Roof Was Taken to Burger King Shortly After Arrest."

He wasn't taken to Burger King.

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Re:Snopes is in danger of closing its doors due to a busines... by tzs on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:43PM (#14849265)

Snopes ratings are on the truth of the specific claims they are investigating, not on the truth of every claim in the source that contains the specific claims they are rating.

The claim being reviewed in this particular case is that Roof as taken to Burger King by the police. That claim is false, and so "False" is the correct rating for Snopes to give.

That the article also has other claims, and that some or all of them may be true, is irrelevant. A false claim does not get upgraded to mixed just because some different claims in the same source are not false.

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