I think this is the worthy comment from the replies to this story in The Daily Mail: Jiminy Jacobs, Berkelo, Netherlands, 55 minutes ago The relevance - and morality - of this article hinges on one question: Do their private lives affect the quality of their fact-checking? That you haven't even bothered to *try* to answer that question is the hallmark of a Daily Mail Exclusive I presume?
Howdy Adam T and Poor Justin! Are we the only ones who comment here? I stopped using snopes.com for political verification because it became obvious very early in the 2016 election that they leaned very heavily left. I confirmed this by using other services like factcheck.org, which is run by the Annenberg Foundation (original family company publishers of TV Guide) and in almost all cases when two or three other fact checkers called something wrong, snopes.com called it right, especially if it contained anything about Clinton.
I don't know anything about snopes.com on verification of current political stories. Factcheck.org is very good, but I use Snopes for things like whether something is true or is an urban legend and sometimes they also comment on proper attribution of quotes.
Whenever I check their findings on these things to less detailed findings on other websites, Snopes reporting is accurate.
That's why you don't consult snopes on issues where it's a matter of opinion. 'was Hillary Clinton breaking the law with her email server' is up for debate, and no site can claim empirical truth. 'did cheesecake factory throw out armed cops eating dinner' is something you can verify, and nobody is better than snopes at that kind of thing.
In my experience, every time someone claims bias on snopes, it's a shocking coincidence that they didn't like the conclusion snopes presented. Funny how that works. Kinda like this article, from one of the worst of the UK tabs when it comes to making up stories or passing around stories they know are false.
I think this is the worthy comment from the replies to this story in The Daily Mail:
ReplyDeleteJiminy Jacobs, Berkelo, Netherlands, 55 minutes ago
The relevance - and morality - of this article hinges on one question: Do their private lives affect the quality of their fact-checking? That you haven't even bothered to *try* to answer that question is the hallmark of a Daily Mail Exclusive I presume?
Pure character assassination by someone sure to be the target of scrutiny when it comes to news accuracy.
ReplyDeleteHowdy Adam T and Poor Justin! Are we the only ones who comment here? I stopped using snopes.com for political verification because it became obvious very early in the 2016 election that they leaned very heavily left. I confirmed this by using other services like factcheck.org, which is run by the Annenberg Foundation (original family company publishers of TV Guide) and in almost all cases when two or three other fact checkers called something wrong, snopes.com called it right, especially if it contained anything about Clinton.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about snopes.com on verification of current political stories. Factcheck.org is very good, but I use Snopes for things like whether something is true or is an urban legend and sometimes they also comment on proper attribution of quotes.
DeleteWhenever I check their findings on these things to less detailed findings on other websites, Snopes reporting is accurate.
That's why you don't consult snopes on issues where it's a matter of opinion. 'was Hillary Clinton breaking the law with her email server' is up for debate, and no site can claim empirical truth. 'did cheesecake factory throw out armed cops eating dinner' is something you can verify, and nobody is better than snopes at that kind of thing.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, every time someone claims bias on snopes, it's a shocking coincidence that they didn't like the conclusion snopes presented. Funny how that works. Kinda like this article, from one of the worst of the UK tabs when it comes to making up stories or passing around stories they know are false.
I've generally found Snopes to be useful and accurate, but I would never consider them to have the "final word" without additional research.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, FactCheck.org actually fact-checked Snopes and found them to be unbiased and truthful.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/