Facebook Threatens Satire Site Over CNN Story That Snopes Rated 'False'

Re:Facebook Threatens Satire Site Over CNN Story That Snopes... by mikeash on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:44PM (#16504947)

I’m surprised at this notion that nobody would have actually believed the story. Have you met people? A lot of them are really dumb.

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Re:Facebook Threatens Satire Site Over CNN Story That Snopes... by jdminhbg on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:48PM (#16505003)

This isn't "of course this is implausible," this is "there is not any actual physical way to conceive of this happening."

This is kind of why "fact-checking" this hurts Snopes' credibility. The only reason to fact-check this article is to take a snide shot at putative stupid people who think it's possible somehow to literally wash news in a washing machine.

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Re:Facebook Threatens Satire Site Over CNN Story That Snopes... by mikeash on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:40PM (#16505480)

People believe all sorts of inconceivable things.

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