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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by beerandt on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:48PM (#21516183)
Articles like this do not make them neutral. They only make them look neutral.

It's the equivalent of claiming to have a black friend as proof you're not racist.

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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by dev_dull on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:49PM (#21518541)
Here's a "partisan" topic: "Have Democrats Tried to Impeach Every GOP President Since Ike?"[1]

According to their site it's 5 out of 6 presidents, or roughly 80%. Their rating: mostly false. Looks mostly true to me.

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dems-impeach-gop-president...

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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:55PM (#21516261)
> Articles like this do not make them neutral. They are only designed to make them look neutral.

Are you asserting, then, that the stories about left-wing idiots are true, but the ones about right-wing idiots are false? I'm honestly curious. Are all of the linked Twitter accounts secret false-flag trolls?

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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by beerandt on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:01PM (#21516349)
Not at all... Just that there's a great deal of nuance that goes into many of these Snopes articles that is designed to flip the question so that it might be answered in a favorable way.

Just covering an opposing viewpoint doesn't mean it's covered in a neutral way.

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