Posted on 12/21/2016 6:47:58 PM PST by Texas Fossil
One of the websites Facebook is to use to arbitrate on 'fake news' is involved in a bitter legal dispute between its co-founders, with its CEO accused of using company money for prostitutes.
Snopes.com will be part of a panel used by Facebook to decide whether stories which users complain about as potentially 'fake' should be considered 'disputed'.
But the website's own troubles and the intriguing choice of who carries out its 'fact checks' are revealed by DailyMail.com, as one of its main contributors is disclosed to be a former sex-blogger who called herself 'Vice Vixen'.
Snopes.com will benefit from Facebook's decision to allow users to report items in their newsfeed which they believe to be 'fake'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Identify, illuminate, ridicule, relegate to the dustbin.
Snopes - liberal couple, fat gal & cheating guy, telling us what’s true. Riiiight...
Right, I saw the Denzel video too. It just reminded me of the falsely attributed quotes.
“Slippery slope.”??
That too. Very Slippery.
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