Anatomy of an online misinformation network

Re:Anatomy of an online misinformation network by TomMckenny on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:54PM (#17176360)

But surely anyone who believes Snopes is biased must have some real evidence they could point to.

The above "Citation needed." is an opportunity to point out the concrete reasons (if any) why bias is supposed. If the only evidence is from sources that are widely questioned then that itself is something to note.

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Re:Anatomy of an online misinformation network by alien_at_work on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @11:55AM (#17180285)

Are you seriously trying to claim Snopes isn't biased? I would say that's the more outrageous claim here. If Snopes is absent of any bias, what is their methodology by which they achieve that? Here is someone [1] who tried to find out and could not.

And as far as bias, a quora post [2] seems to give the impression that Snopes was heavily favoring Hillary Clinton through the campaing.

So I'd like to turn this around: could those that believe Snopes is not biased give some kind of citation?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-Snopes-biased-Why-do-some-people-be...

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