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> I see Snopes as pure, unadulterated bias Oh, they said Trump told the truth when he said "Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia." https://www.po

> I see Snopes as pure, unadulterated bias Oh, they said Trump told the truth when he said "Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/24/donald-trump/fact-checking-trump-rising-murders-philly/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/24/donald-tru... Why didn't anyone remind them of their bias before this got published?

betwixthewires 5y ago
I love how ever single reply to the parent mentions Trump, as if anyone that thinks snopes is full of shit must be a Trump supporter. It's almost as if there's a group of people out there who all think exactly alike and knee jerk to defend these organizations out of some strange sense of loyalty.
- krapp 5y ago
  >I love how ever single reply to the parent mentions Trump, as if anyone that thinks snopes is full of shit must be a Trump supporter. Because there was no widespread vocal opposition to Snopes until Trump supporters started calling it "fake news" for debunking his claims about his inauguration turnout. Now they come out of the woodwork with every mention of the site to call it liberal propaganda and whatnot. No one else cares about the site that much - it's entertainment at best.
  - betwixthewires 5y ago
    The thread they're replying to said nothing about liberal anything, although I would understand jumping to that conclusion if they had. The widespread vocal opposition to Snopes is not simply from Trump calling it fake news, if anything his was a response just like the rest of us, a response to that organization plainly and blatantly lying to their readers repeatedly.
    - krapp 5y ago
      And yet if you ask people for a list of these blatant lies, most of the time they'll be items critical of Trump or of right-wing talking points. I'm sure there are some people who don't like Snopes for whatever other reasons but it's obvious that much of the modern resentment against the site is driven by a political agenda.
      - betwixthewires 5y ago
        Well sure, but those examples aren't the result of opposing bias. For the past 5 years any mainstream source or aggregator of information has been on a feverish rampage against Trump. Even if you don't like him it's plain as day. So of course a lot of the prominent examples are going to be that, because that's all they've been doing for 5 years.
- qkqk 5y ago
  And the reply in the other direction mentions Hunter Biden. I don't understand why! (We're still pretending we don't know that people are insinuating Snopes has a liberal bias right?) If Trump makes a huge number of false statements during his tenure as the president he's going to get the attention of fact-checking sites...
  - betwixthewires 5y ago
    I can tell you why, it's because it is a very prominent example of a blatant bald faced lie left as is to propagandize naive people who won't actually look into things themselves and delegate that role to Snopes. If Trump makes a huge number of false statements it should attract the attention of everyone. People that delegate their own critical thinking to an entity claiming to be unbiased and informed in doing it for them are going to be misled one way or another.

betwixthewires 5y ago

I love how ever single reply to the parent mentions Trump, as if anyone that thinks snopes is full of shit must be a Trump supporter. It's almost as if there's a group of people out there who all think exactly alike and knee jerk to defend these organizations out of some strange sense of loyalty.

krapp 5y ago
>I love how ever single reply to the parent mentions Trump, as if anyone that thinks snopes is full of shit must be a Trump supporter. Because there was no widespread vocal opposition to Snopes until Trump supporters started calling it "fake news" for debunking his claims about his inauguration turnout. Now they come out of the woodwork with every mention of the site to call it liberal propaganda and whatnot. No one else cares about the site that much - it's entertainment at best.
- betwixthewires 5y ago
  The thread they're replying to said nothing about liberal anything, although I would understand jumping to that conclusion if they had. The widespread vocal opposition to Snopes is not simply from Trump calling it fake news, if anything his was a response just like the rest of us, a response to that organization plainly and blatantly lying to their readers repeatedly.
  - krapp 5y ago
    And yet if you ask people for a list of these blatant lies, most of the time they'll be items critical of Trump or of right-wing talking points. I'm sure there are some people who don't like Snopes for whatever other reasons but it's obvious that much of the modern resentment against the site is driven by a political agenda.
    - betwixthewires 5y ago
      Well sure, but those examples aren't the result of opposing bias. For the past 5 years any mainstream source or aggregator of information has been on a feverish rampage against Trump. Even if you don't like him it's plain as day. So of course a lot of the prominent examples are going to be that, because that's all they've been doing for 5 years.
qkqk 5y ago
And the reply in the other direction mentions Hunter Biden. I don't understand why! (We're still pretending we don't know that people are insinuating Snopes has a liberal bias right?) If Trump makes a huge number of false statements during his tenure as the president he's going to get the attention of fact-checking sites...
- betwixthewires 5y ago
  I can tell you why, it's because it is a very prominent example of a blatant bald faced lie left as is to propagandize naive people who won't actually look into things themselves and delegate that role to Snopes. If Trump makes a huge number of false statements it should attract the attention of everyone. People that delegate their own critical thinking to an entity claiming to be unbiased and informed in doing it for them are going to be misled one way or another.