Re:Facebook Threatens Satire Site Over CNN Story That Snopes...
by jsgo on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:42PM
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Personally, because there are so many sketchy things on Facebook, this is what I tend to do:
1) go to snopes, search for the article
2) read the article, specifically using the links to their sources and reviewing those.
3) if still unsure, do some more searching.
4) if after steps 1 and 2 it can be deemed that, yeah, whatever was posted to Facebook was a crock, then I'll share a link to the Snopes article and in the case where there's a video being sourced, link to said video and pertinent timestamps.
So yeah. Used right, Snopes is a good resource. If you (not you you, you generally) just blindly take the word of anything regardless of the source, well, that's interesting.
1) go to snopes, search for the article 2) read the article, specifically using the links to their sources and reviewing those. 3) if still unsure, do some more searching. 4) if after steps 1 and 2 it can be deemed that, yeah, whatever was posted to Facebook was a crock, then I'll share a link to the Snopes article and in the case where there's a video being sourced, link to said video and pertinent timestamps.
So yeah. Used right, Snopes is a good resource. If you (not you you, you generally) just blindly take the word of anything regardless of the source, well, that's interesting.