Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by pltk-acct on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:35PM (#19058282)

The Federalist is a highly partisan blog. I don't think it's fair to compare the two, the equivalent would be bringing out pieces from the YoungTurks stating that people are misrepresenting their opinions.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by jtbayly on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:44PM (#19058404)

First of all, I don't have any idea what you're talking about when you talk about "comparing." I'm not comparing any two things.

Secondly, partisan or not, the Federalist was not the one Snopes was unfairly attacking. They simply reported on the effects of the Snopes attack on a satire site.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by gpvos on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:59PM (#19058539)

In what way was Snopes attacking that site? It's just a short, factual note that it's a satire article and website.

Now, what Facebook did with that was not good, and I can see why Snopes would want to get out of such a system.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by jtbayly on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:33PM (#19060645)

Snopes manually reported the article to FB as fake news that shouldn’t be allowed to spread. FB trusted Snopes. That’s the opposite of what you imply, but it’s clearly the case if you read the original article at the top of the page.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by jtbayly on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:06PM (#19059203)

Except that’s not why they got out, is it?

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