Posted on 06/22/2023 6:52:50 PM PDT by lowbridge
Left-wing “fact-checking” site Snopes tried to place some of the blame for the loss of the ill-fated Titan submersible on Elon Musk, but a little thing called “facts” got in the way of its partisan hackery.
The site initially tried to tar Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet services with vague links to the company that launched the submersible that went missing Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland. Authorities announced Thursday that they had found debris from the submersible and that the occupants are believed deceased.
In its June 20 “fact-check” piece, entitled “Was the Missing Titanic Submersible Using Satellites from Elon Musk’s Company?” Snopes claimed that the submersible that went missing “relied” on Starlink for communications.
“OceanGate, the company behind the submersible that went missing in June 2023 on a Titanic wreckage exploration, relied on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites to provide communications during the expedition,” the “claim” segment read.
The “rating” Snopes gave to the so-called fact-check was “True.”
You can see that original post on the internet site Wayback Machine, which archives past website postings.
But hours later, the site made an about-face and gave the claim an “unproven” rating after Twitter’s community notes took Snopes to school with actual scientific facts.
Then, after more alterations to its post, the “fact-check” suddenly switched to a “false” rating.
Now, the Snopes page reads as a “false” rating and features four updates telling readers that the story was “amended” to “add details.”
The “false” rating suddenly showed up after Snopes got a community note on its own tweet about its false “fact-check.”
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Haha! Good one!
Perhaps Starlink garbled comms and when the command was sent to “ascend” it was received as “implode”.
OK that’s silly but I would not be surprised if Musk gets dragged into the lawsuits by some means or another, just because of his deep pocket.
Underwater communications must be done using sound. That suffers from a great deal of ocean noise, multi-path reflections, and frequency dependent absorption. If you want to talk to something deep in the ocean, you have to use a long wire.
Snopes: The fact-checking refuge of infants and imbeciles.
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