Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook

Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by Fauntleroy on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:53PM (#19059563)

I can't believe the massive number of HN users here who are willingly throwing critical thinking under the bus just because of political bias. It's maddening that people are making the jump from "Snopes posted something possibly incorrect about soda cans" and "Snopes one time fact checked shitty satire" directly to "Snopes is untrustworthy".

Everything is imperfect, even fact checking groups. If you're going to throw them under the bus for these tiny errors, I sure hope you've already incinerated every computing device you own, because boy do you have some things to learn about them.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by archagon on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:49PM (#19066683)

It never ceases to amaze me how dumb smart people can be. Without a hint of self-awareness, they get locked into the same partisan boxes as anyone else, yet swear hand-over-heart that they're rationally examining society from an impartial outside perspective.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by ijb03qv7 on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:07PM (#19060019)

The problem with a website like Snopes is that, if you want to claim to be an unbiased gatekeeper of the truth, you better be perfect.

Since humans are imperfect, a site like Snopes can not exist.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by fitpolar on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:57PM (#19060221)

I don't know why this would get downvoted. Seems reasonable, whether it's Snopes or anyone.

Similar to Apple claiming "it just works", you better make sure it works. Or Google proclaiming "don't be evil". Etc.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by Wowfunhappy on Friday February 01, 2019 @08:03PM (#19060260)

> Similar to Apple claiming "it just works", you better make sure it works.

My Mac got a kernel panic yesterday. My response was not to swear off Apple products forever.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by fitpolar on Friday February 01, 2019 @08:08PM (#19060280)

> My Mac got a kernel panic yesterday. My response is not to swear off Apple products forever.

Yet your response is to downvote everything you disagree with?

Not swearing off Apple products forever is your personal choice. Personally I agree with that. But I know plenty of people who DO choose to swear off Apple products when something doesn't work. That's also their choice, and I don't have a problem with that.

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Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa... by eridius on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:21PM (#19060814)

Did those people flee civilization to go live naked in a cave somewhere?

No? Then no, their reaction to something not working is not to immediately swear off that entire product category forever. Because, sooner or later, everything fails to work correctly in some fashion.

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