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I've seen worse. PolitiFact managed to fact check an article from military satire site DuffelBlog and just didn't seem to grasp that it was satire, at all. They
by makomk 9y ago
I've seen worse. PolitiFact managed to fact check an article from military satire site DuffelBlog and just didn't seem to grasp that it was satire, at all. They wrote, in excruciating detail, about all the increasingly silly and implausible claims and at no point did it occur to them that maybe they should take them as a hint that the whole thing was a joke, an incredibly unsubtle humorous reference to actual events: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/nov/16/duffel-blog/no-bowe-bergdahl-didnt-wander-during-court/ http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/nov/16/...
- mikeash 9y agoDid you read to the end? They clearly know it’s satire and have a thorough discussion of that.
- makomk 9y agoYes, I did read to the end, and no they don't. They treated it as though it's one of the many actual fake news sites that builds its business model around tricking people but hides away a disclaimer somewhere claiming to be a satire site in order to dodge complaints, describing it as though that disclaimer was the only thing tipping readers off that the article wasn't true. None of the DuffelBlog articles are exactly subtle, including that one.
- mikeash 9y agoThey’re just stating the facts. Your claim that it never occurred to them that it’s satire is clearly wrong.