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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by davvolun on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:19PM (#21515863)
Sure, but, like porn and art, we can tell the difference between Info Wars and The Onion. A simple landing page on The Onion or Babylon Bee is all Snopes needs to do, whereas it's clear Info Wars has an agenda of spreading disinformation and it's useful combatting specific articles of theirs.

Last I knew, Snopes isn't and cannot be run as a simple application of objective rules. You can follow guidelines, but debunking the type of Info Wars, or Trumpian, disinformation requires more mental effort than that. If it didn't, if it was the simple application of objective rules, there would be little value in the site.

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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by jacquesm on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:31PM (#21515997)
> we can tell the difference between Info Wars and The Onion

Correction, you can. But unfortunately not everybody can.

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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by davvolun on Friday November 15, 2019 @02:47PM (#21548100)
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time ... but in general, while people may be fooled by The Onion a few times, they tend to learn and do better in the future. - Abraham Lincoln - Michael Scott
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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by beerandt on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:37AM (#21525279)
This I think, is the source of much of the disagreement:

1) whether content should be judged on it's intended vs perceived meaning

2) whether we should make an effort to reduce everything to be understandable to the lowest common denominator.

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