Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by beerandt on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:55PM
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But that's not a decision to be made by Snopes, based on a supposed fact-check.
There are plenty of people who don't find the onion, at all. It's not a justification for blacklisting them as fake news.
Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by dkonofalski on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:44PM
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>blacklisting them as fake news
The Onion is, literally, fake news regardless of whether one finds them funny or not. The question is whether people think it's true not whether they think it's funny and that's the only decision being made by a fact-check.
Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by beerandt on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @07:32PM
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So is Babylon Bee. Yet different standards were and are being applied.
Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com
by dkonofalski on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @07:48PM
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Different standards were not applied. Where are you getting that from?
Forum users posted the article from BB asking for it to be debunked. They haven't posted a request for articles from the Onion and that's likely because the Onion is well-known enough for people to know it's satire.
You guys are reaching so hard here.
Perhaps the publication should look inward, not outward, and realize the lines between misinformation and satire are paper thin. Somehow, and perhaps its branding, The Onion manages to maintain humor and absurdity with very little room for interpreting it's content as anything but satire.