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Facebook is going to use Snopes and other fact checkers to combat fake news
BI ^ | 12-14-2016 | Alex Heath

Posted on 12/15/2016 10:28:24 AM PST by tcrlaf

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To: tcrlaf
PHOOOF!!

That will be a closed loop:

Facebook to Snopes and back again!

21 posted on 12/15/2016 11:27:08 AM PST by ptsal
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To: tcrlaf

SNOPES has lost all credibility as fact checker... the spin they use, especially on things political, is mind boggling.


22 posted on 12/15/2016 11:30:54 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: tcrlaf
...This is called CENSORSHIP, folks!

Yes, and it's also called having the fox guard the hen house.

23 posted on 12/15/2016 11:34:34 AM PST by poconopundit (Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string. Emerson)
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Facebook is a private entity, they can do what they want...Seems to me people on both sides are sort of getting over Facebook....what an opportunity for it to face some REAL competition from some smart, young Conservative upstarts....


24 posted on 12/15/2016 11:40:00 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: tcrlaf

I despise Zuckerberg. Maybe it’s because he is Jewish but also an atheist. A Jewish man who denies the role G-d has played in the history of his people is a supreme idiot, IMHO.


25 posted on 12/15/2016 12:05:46 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: tcrlaf

Facebook will soon become a leftist echo chamber. Most conservatives will just shut down their account and move onto something else.


26 posted on 12/15/2016 12:15:43 PM PST by PLOM...NOT! (With guns, we are citizens. Without them, we are subjects.)
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To: tcrlaf

Your cunning plan will not work out the way you think.

27 posted on 12/15/2016 12:15:49 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: tcrlaf

If implemented, I’ll delete my fb account.


28 posted on 12/15/2016 12:27:55 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (WaPo: A Fake News Site by their own admission.)
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To: tcrlaf

Snopes, hahahahahahahahahaha!


29 posted on 12/15/2016 12:39:57 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: tcrlaf

Oblomov is Going to Use Ad/Cookie Blockers to Combat Facebook


30 posted on 12/15/2016 12:44:34 PM PST by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: WENDLE

Every time I go on Facebook
- 1/3 of the posts are banal political opinions, with obligatory links to Mother Jones or Slate
- 1/3 are posts of the Hawaii vacation of someone I went to high school with 30 years ago, and haven’t thought about since
- 1/3 are cat pictures, memes that reinforce the inane political opinions, someone’s children’s artwork, someone, who I went to high school with 30 years ago, selling cheap jewelry or organic cleaning products.

In other words, although it’s not all garbage in the strict sense, I have no time in my day for it.


31 posted on 12/15/2016 12:53:05 PM PST by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: tcrlaf
Hey, SNOPES is on the level and 100% nonpartisan.

Who says so? Why.... SNOPES of course!

32 posted on 12/15/2016 1:08:06 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: HamiltonJay

“Some DOPES” has lost all credibility as fact checker..

Nuttin like Lib feriners help us Americans....


33 posted on 12/15/2016 1:15:54 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: tcrlaf

What a scam! Let’s see if they decide that the totally biased lies-by-omission posts about Standing Rock are fake news. That is all over facebook, and the liberals share it with tears in their eyes.


34 posted on 12/15/2016 1:41:32 PM PST by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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To: PLOM...NOT!

Facebook is a useful platform for some purposes. I am part of a worldwide community of breeders for my rare dog breed, and FB has enabled a huge breakthrough in communication among us all. It is also used for groups related to online classes I take, and is very flexible for that purpose and increases the value of the courses. But I stick to those groups, and unfollow everyone personally, because outside of targeted groups, it is an undesirable neighborhood.


35 posted on 12/15/2016 1:46:27 PM PST by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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To: tcrlaf

SNOPES still says that Muslims cheering in New York on 911 was fake. Others like Coulter firmly say it is true. Who is lying?


36 posted on 12/15/2016 1:49:24 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: HamiltonJay
I notice most thinks said about Clinton or Obama they call FALSE, and most of what is said about Trump and Bush is TRUE. Hmmmm...coincidence?
37 posted on 12/15/2016 1:52:17 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: tcrlaf

One leftist propaganda website is going to use a second leftist propaganda website to validate the first leftist propaganda website.

Got it.


38 posted on 12/15/2016 2:00:34 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: ExSoldier

http://www.snopes.com/black-mob-beats-white-man-for-voting-trump/

So this story, which has got a lot of traction in conservative circles, snopes is saying is unproven. (hmm)


39 posted on 12/15/2016 2:01:07 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee
Rule #1: NEVER trust SNOPES!
40 posted on 12/16/2016 7:37:57 AM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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