Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by bitwize on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @10:49AM
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This is by design. If "fake news" is the threat of the day, you need only paint your target with the "fake news" label and nukes will be launched against it. Babylon Bee leans conservative, and when those who cloak themselves in hard-left rhetoric are in the crosshairs of ridicule, they tend to retaliate hard, with whatever means they have to hand.
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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by dkonofalski on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:52AM
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This is not a matter of targeting as much as it's a matter of people falling for satire and not having the ability or resources to tell the difference. If it was really that easy to "launch nukes" against a site, then something like Snopes as a whole would be ineffective.
Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by davvolun on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:15PM
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> when those who cloak themselves in hard-left rhetoric are in the crosshairs of ridicule, they tend to retaliate hard, with whatever means they have to hand.
That's complete nonsense, and not a partisan or "hard-left-only" reaction. The right also tries to de-platform the left, if you're trying to make "fake news" a partisan issue, you're contributing to the problem.