Just bring back this guy.
Posted on 02/13/2022 6:22:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The fact-checking industry may be the most laughable form of journalism ever. However, content creators should not ignore its influence. Once something is fact-checked as false, it may limit the distribution of the information on social media and web searches. Satire site Babylon Bee has fallen victim to ridiculous fact-checks from the left-leaning site Snopes. As noted by PJ Media at the time:
This is significant because one satire article Snopes marked as “false” resulted in Facebook threatening the Bee with limitations and demonetization. Facebook rightly apologized, admitting that satire is not the same as fake news, but the incident shows the danger of Snopes’ misleading attacks. Snopes withdrew from its partnership with Facebook in February 2019.
The dopes at Snopes either thought liberals were too stupid to get the joke, they were intentionally misleading to hurt the Bee, or parody and reality are getting more difficult to distinguish.
This weekend the news cycle was so slow, the legacy media fact-checked a meme. It’s not like John Durham just dropped a bombshell, or we appear to be on the verge of a land war in Europe or anything. Nope. The critical issue is a meme mocking CNN and the Biden administration:
A screenshot of a CNN report has been altered to add a bogus chyron claiming Russia is waiting to capture U.S. weapons before invading Ukraine.
The image was edited to place fake text on a real screenshot from a 2017 clip.https://t.co/K1DOOwMR0u
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) February 12, 2022
Twitter provided the following context when you clicked on the link under “What’s happening”:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Subtitles on live there (even your local morning or evening news) sucks. It often gets stuck or run so fast as if someone hit fast forward that you can’t possibly keep up.
Or it gets stuck (pauses) and then all the sudden it takes off at warp speed to catch back up and you can’t read it.
Mostly on live events the caption makes mistakes with wording, spelling and or just misses sentences completely.
Just bring back this guy.
thank you sooo much... i’ve been dying to know
First video/Gif: “wait/hold on”.
for what it’s worth, i think she’s the best of what they have now
they fired the one simply because she was a Republican
READ LATER.
So get ready for the fact checkers to start investigating if in fact the next person who gets called a M… F…er actually had sex with their mother…
LOL... oh yeah
It's quickly getting to the point that it is harder and harder to give people of a certain ideology the benefit of a doubt. It used to be that when given a choice of incompetence or malice, I would opt for incompetence as the driving force behind someone's motives. Not so much anymore.
Most of the “Fart Checkers” operating in the U.S. are low intelligence third world losers who aren’t familiar with the English language and sense of humor.
Well you sound like an authoritarian! jk/lol
And, I think God did that - oh wait I meant post#8
Media fact-checking is as safe as taking candy from a stranger.
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