Meet "Snopes." I am not joking. These are the 2 people who began and run the Snopes "fact-checking" website. They are Barbara and David Mikkelson of California. Again-- I repeat, this is not a joke. You are looking at "Snopes." That is their cat.
Posted on 12/29/2016 6:49:02 PM PST by Tennessean4Bush
Yesterday afternoon a colleague forwarded me an article from the Daily Mail, asking me if it could possibly be true. The article in question is an expose on Snopes.com, the fact checking site used by journalists and citizens across the world and one of the sites that Facebook recently partnered with to fact check news stories on its platform. The Daily Mail’s article makes a number of claims about the site’s principles and organization, drawing heavily from the proceedings of a contentious divorce between the site’s founders and questioning whether the site could possibly act as a trusted and neutral arbitrator of the “truth.”
When I first read through the Daily Mail article I immediately suspected the story itself must certainly be “fake news” because of how devastating the claims were and that given that Snopes.com was so heavily used by the journalistic community, if any of the claims were true, someone would have already written about them and companies like Facebook would not be partnering with them. I also noted that despite having been online for several hours, no other major mainstream news outlet had written about the story, which is typically a strong sign of a false or misleading story. Yet at the same time, the Daily Mail appeared to be sourcing its claims from a series of emails and other documents from a court case, some of which it reproduced in its article and, perhaps most strangely, neither Snopes nor its principles had issued any kind of statement through its website or social media channels disclaiming the story.
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Incorrect. It has been known by any number of people that snopes was unreliable especially when it comes to political items.
You appear to be singling out this one reporter
I "singled out" this reporter because he is the one who wrote the article.
Should I have singled out his next door neighbor?
Sheesh!
And I am pointing out that this is something that anyone who did a small amount of digging knew years ago.
Using snopes as a fact check is like using Wikipedia for research. In both cases you are taking the word of people about which you know nothing.
As a starting place it is fine, but not as the source of all truth.
Like I said before he gets a small pat for suddenly noticing the work someone else did and deciding to fact check it.
He gets a kick for being naive for so long.
Snopes for dopes without hopes...
Bkmk
how about singling out the 5000 other media outlets and 50000 other reporters?
Actual reviews of Wikipedia shows it to be reliable. I often use it as a starting point.
Meet "Snopes." I am not joking. These are the 2 people who began and run the Snopes "fact-checking" website. They are Barbara and David Mikkelson of California. Again-- I repeat, this is not a joke. You are looking at "Snopes." That is their cat.
To know if a site is BS or not, check what they say about Globull warming.
Snopes fails the test miserably, ‘nough said.
While he was slow to realize Snopes had a leftist bias and did not have rigorous processes, I have no objection to him recognizing he had assumed things that turned out not to be so...provided he really meant "assume" in that he was not committed to the proposition, but it was the working assumption before evidence was gathered. What one should not do is "presume" in the sense of committing oneself to a position before having good evidence.
Or Benghazi.
Snopes CEO Accused in Divorce Proceedings of Embezzling Company Money to Spend on Prostitutes
Breitbart ^ | 12-22-2016 | Luke Nolan
Posted on 12/29/2016, 12:46:16 PM by brucedickinson
The CEO of Snopes.com, the fact-checking website that was recently named as one of Facebook’s “fake news” arbiters, has been accused in divorce proceedings of appropriating company funds which he allegedly spent on expensive holidays and prostitutes. David has remarried since his divorce from Barbara in 2014.
His current wife, Elyssa Young, works as an administrative worker at Snopes, but she previously had a lengthy career as an escort and adult film star working under the name Erin O’Bryn. Reviews for Young’s “services” have been left on her personal escort website as recently as 2015. Young’s websites and Twitter account describe her as “a mature and experienced courtesan, idealist, activist & dreamer.”
Her website further states, “Here’s the donation I request for my time, companionship, and entertainment” with “non-negotiable” rates of $1,200 for her minimum four hours and $5,000 for 24 hours.
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I wouldn’t trust those losers to look out the window and tell me if it’s raining.
Don’t let them fool you — The cat was the brains of the company. The only purpose the other two served is to operate the can opener.
“Don’t let them fool you — The cat was the brains of the company. The only purpose the other two served is to operate the can opener.”
That’s no better. Everyone knows you can’t trust a cat.
We were in the LeRoy Jewelry shop on Broadway, watching a demonstration of a Makah Native American Basket Weaver.
I took a couple of cell pictures and a good close look.
I'm pretty sure Laz wouldn't hit it.
Does she really have wear jackets with "SNOPES" written on them? Sheesh.
There could be the possibly Laz would hit it with a Baseball bat, just saying. :-)
that is the guy who runs snopes?
She charges WHAT???
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