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I doubt it is either, but how is Snopes remotely in a position to make this call? Snopes is a site for researching urban myths not for making complicated sociop
by ebbv 10y ago
I doubt it is either, but how is Snopes remotely in a position to make this call? Snopes is a site for researching urban myths not for making complicated sociopolitical analysis.
- ralmeida 10y agoI'm not sure who would be in such a position, but - to be fair, Snopes has indeed been for many years in the 'business' of observing and understanding how misinformation spreads. So, to some extent, they do have some authority to theorize that fake news sites do not spread misinformation (because they supposedly know enough how it spreads to know this doesn't look like it).
- theobahe6 10y agoIMO this is part of the problem. People relying on what they "know" about the world. You're relying on previous knowledge of Snopes without considering the accuracy of this account on its own. You "know" the brand but failed to vet this message and the messenger, that is the author, and whether they are qualified individually to make an accurate assessment. Boxing things into categories leaving little wiggle room for exceptions or evolution "I don't want knowledge. I want certainty." -- David Bowie
- Torgo 10y agoThey've dove into routinely-circulated Internet politics new items for a while now. Personally I don't care for it. I can't tell if they know they are doing this or not, but they'll take a circulated story, and then out of every permutation of it across the Internet, they will pick the version that is just outside the realm of fact, and then "debunk" that one as "mixed" or "false."