Re:Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checker...
by notahacker on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:07PM
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This. Many other organizations are similar degrees of separation from individuals who could plausibly be labelled as terrorists or similar, but I doubt many of the people furious at labelling this claim as "mixed" would demand fact checkers also rate such articles as wholly true if the subject of the headline was an individual closely linked to, say, the Republican party, Fox News or the NRA. And yes, if you want to believe that BLM is a terrorist organisation then the Snopes article provides enough accurate detail about the bad stuff Rosenberg did for you not to change your mind, just as any self respecting fact checker has to acknowledge that however dubious certain insinuations might be, Oliver North et al exist.
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Re:Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checker...
by fallingknife on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:11PM
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I don't think "serves on the board of" counts as a degree of separation.
Re:Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checker...
by notahacker on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:46PM
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"Serves on the board of an organisation that provides funding and administrative support to" sounds like a degree of separation. Unless you were talking about Oliver North...
Re:Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checker...
by fallingknife on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @04:43PM
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Him too
Re:Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checker...
by BitwiseFool on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:25PM
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In the spirit of the discussion.... just as a screen tap counts as a 'zero-length' swipe, serving on the board of directors is a zero-degree separation. But it is still a degree of separation. /s
Re:Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checker...
by heartbreak on Thursday December 30, 2021 @06:43AM
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I could be wrong here, but “Thousand Currents” does not seem to be an alias for “BLM.”