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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by dkonofalski on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:46AM (#21515546)
>suggests to me that their days of being a valuable resource are over

Why's that? You don't think there's value to debunking that kind of information if people think it's "real"?

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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:10PM (#21515778)
Once the principled founders are gone it will just turn into an ad platform with the content curators squeezed to the breaking point for the sake of profit.
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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by dkonofalski on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:25PM (#21515929)
>Once the principled founders are gone

That depends on who they turn the reins over to. One of the founders is still in control of the site.

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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by beerandt on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:52PM (#21516219)
Even before the split, they were outsourcing articles years ago. It's been a borderline content mill since at least 2015.
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