Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com

Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by pwinnski on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:30PM (#21518361)

Snopes doesn't de-platform anyone. Your beef is rightly with Google or Facebook.

Snopes labels things that are false as false. This includes many or most satirical articles. Given the number of times I've told someone that a thing is false and had to provide a scopes link before they would even start to believe me, I'm very grateful for snopes.

Facebook and Google can pound sand.

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Re:Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com by beerandt on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:57PM (#21521282)

I have plenty of issues with them too. But that doesn't exonerate Snopes for twisting claims in misleading ways, whether satire or not.

I used to rely on them, too. That's part of the reason that it pisses me off so much... It used to be a great resource.

Now I use it more to see how a political claim is going to spun, than to check whether it's true.

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