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Re:Facebook Threatens Satire Site Over CNN Story That Snopes... by macintux on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:46PM (#16504981)
Do you have some examples of Snopes providing bad information? They're certainly not flawless, but it's a useful resource, and most of the people I've seen dismiss them out of hand seem to have a political interest in them being wrong.
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Re:Facebook Threatens Satire Site Over CNN Story That Snopes... by Sophira on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:56PM (#16505097)
In one case they deliberately provided a whole category of false information in an attempt to spread awareness of False Authority Syndrome.[0] They wanted to make the same point that the comment you replied to is making!

[0] https://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp

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