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I mean, this may well be parody "May well be" is being unnecessarily conservative. Maybe you didn't make it far enough into the article to read the faked inte
by nkurz 10y ago
I mean, this may well be parody
"May well be" is being unnecessarily conservative. Maybe you didn't make it far enough into the article to read the faked interview with the author of the the Snope's article I posted:
David Mikkelson, founder of Snopes.com, a website known for its biased opinions and inaccurate information they write about stories on the internet in order to generate advertising revenue, told ABC News that he approves of what a story like this is accomplishing.
“You have to understand that when a story like this goes viral, and we spend a minute or two debunking it, we make lots of money. Stories like this have helped put my children through college, buy a new car, a home and even get the Silverback gorilla my wife Barbara always wanted since she was a child,” Mikkleson said.
Buried, but actually rather funny. In a way, this is both a fabulous and a terrible example. Read in its entirety, it's clearly satire. Yet I'm sure that many people never read it closely enough to notice.
Should Facebook be censoring this? No. Should they be labelling it? Yeah, it might be a good idea. Is this the sort of story that the author is referring to? I don't know, but it would be nice if he'd tell us explicitly.
- hga 10y agoGiven who Snopes assigned political "debunking" to and the predicable results, you could also label this item as "Fake but Accurate", the "website known for its biased opinions and inaccurate information" is accurate enough for enough of their political items. One things I don't get, though, is why so many organizations destroyed whatever credibility they had remaining in a futile attempt to win this election for their preferred candidate, I mean, this was an "it's my turn" race, a bit like Dole in 1996 and Romney in 2012. Especially prior to Trump winning the Republican nomination, was it really that important? Note that this goes all the way to the DNC for the party itself....