Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by ineptech on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:54AM
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"Snopes fact-checked a right-wing parody site, therefore they're biased for the left" is a meme that gets mentioned weekly on any political argument/discussion forum. It sounds persuasive as long as you don't look to see whether they fact-check left-wing parody sites too.
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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by ineptech on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:32PM
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I will take the reply-less downvotes to mean "I wish that weren't true." Feel free to search 'site:snopes.com "the onion"' if you like.
Snopes and its staff may well be left-leaning (everything is left-leaning if you're right-leaning enough, and vice versa) but their tiff with the Babylon Bee is not evidence of it.
Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by dkonofalski on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @02:28PM
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Yes and, by the same logic, most of the people responding to your comment, despite its veracity, will be people that took issue with it and so they'll be right-leaning.
I think you're 100% right that it's the "I wish it weren't true" crowd because, if it was, they would have reveled in assailing you with links to the contrary.