Snopes Thread

[tomgirl4life]

Snopes is a great site, I like to whip it out whenever I see people flipping their shit on Facebook over some rumor they couldn't be bothered to actually look up.

I like it when the wacko bullshit says "Snopes confirmed" in it, because they know that'll make the ones who normally share it and get shut down go ahead and share this one.

 

[AnOminous]

I like it when the wacko bullshit says "Snopes confirmed" in it, because they know that'll make the ones who normally share it and get shut down go ahead and share this one.

Yet if you actually check, almost any spam containing "Snopes confirmed" actually has Snopes saying it's bullshit. These morons who pass this on never check it. It's pretty amazing how dumb some people can be.

 

[Xarpho]

Snopes used to be overall good when it was good for disproving persistent urban legends, like Mr. Rogers fighting in the Vietnam War, but it has gotten to the point where it's bias is too obvious to ignore, and frankly, it's not a pleasant site to browse on anyway. I remember the last time I tried to go on there without some sort of adblock, and it was a mess. Popups everywhere and all that shit.

 

[Caesare]

Snopes used to be overall good when it was good for disproving persistent urban legends, like Mr. Rogers fighting in the Vietnam War, but it has gotten to the point where it's bias is too obvious to ignore

Are you saying that Mr. Rogers wasn't a Navy Seal that fought in the Vietnam War and the sweaters and shit he wears are to cover up all the Navy tattoos?

Lol, I don't know how, but I've never heard anyone try and claim that ever until I read about it on Snopes.

 

[AlanRickmanIsDead]

Are you saying that Mr. Rogers wasn't a Navy Seal that fought in the Vietnam War and the sweaters and shit he wears are to cover up all the Navy tattoos?

Lol, I don't know how, but I've never heard anyone try and claim that ever until I read about it on Snopes.

Snopes is spreading stupid rumors in order to drive traffic to their website?
That's some clever SEO.

 

[Spawn]

Lads seems she is going down. Because the owner is losing money on whores and devorces. Also they don't fact check Jack shit.

(Courtesy of wnd) 'Hookers, lies and fraud': Snopes 'in danger of closing doors'

So-called “fact-checking” website Snopes.com is reportedly on the verge of financial collapse since one if its founders has been accused of using company cash to fund his contentious divorce and to pay for fancy vacations with his new wife, a former escort and porn actress.

Snopes-logoThe financial situation has apparently become so dire that Snopes owner David Mikkelson launched a crowd-funding website to solicit donations, according to London’s Daily Mail. Readers contributed more than $500,000 in just the first 24 hours.

As WND has reported, Snopes.com, a website that’s been around since 1995, is sometimes cited by other “fact-checking” sites to support their claims. Facebook has even indicated it plans to use Snopes as one of its arbiters of “fake news.” But WND revealed the site has been criticized by conservatives for a left-leaning bias and admits it has no standard procedure for fact-checking.

Snopes.com’s founders, former husband and wife David and Barbara Mikkelson, have been embroiled in a lengthy and bitter legal dispute in the wake of their divorce. At one point, Barbara accused the CEO of using company money for prostitutes. Barbara Mikkelson also accused her ex-husband of embezzling more than $100,000 in company funds. She urged the court to limit access to David’s bank account because she said she feared he would drain the company funds due to his wild spending habits.

Well lads looks like another one bites the dust. Hopefully it's as good a meltdown as gawker was. Also a 6 pack to the man who finds the porn staring his wife that shit ought to be funny.
Also special thanks to the general discussion thread on snopes for turning me on to this madness.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/07/hookers-lies-and-fraud-snopes-in-danger-of-closing-doors/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4730092/Snopes-brink-founder-accused-fraud-lying.html

 

[Spawn]

Guess what I found... looks like the six pack goes to me. Now who brought the stella?

Spoiler

https://www.xvideos.com/video14771523/erin_o_bryn

 

[Spawn]

Huh well I truly thought they reached lolcow tier. I mean if gawker did then they should. But aighting as it gets discussed.

 

[CatParty]

So-called “fact-checking” website

you cannot make a generalization based on their political leanings. you are basically saying you would believe in aliens and bigfoot and pizzagate if you are to say the entire site is false.

better @Melchett ?

 

[HG 400]

@Spawn apologise for triple posting

 

[Caesare]

Guess what I found... looks like the six pack goes to me. Now who brought the stella?

Spoiler

https://www.xvideos.com/video14771523/erin_o_bryn

Marries a pornstar with a face like this:

Spoiler

lol

 

[Spawn]

@Spawn apologise for triple posting

No because I didn't do it intentionally. However I'll try to check over before I post as to limit this un intended activity in the future.

Marries a pornstar with a face like this:

Spoiler

lol

Imagine what it must be like plowing that knowing in the back of your head how many guys she has been with. Knowing your wife is in fact a total whore

 

[HG 400]

No because I didn't do it intentionally. However I'll try to check over before I post as to limit this un intended activity in the future.

APOLOGISE FOR TRIPLE POSTING YOU LEFTIST CUCK

 

[XYZpdq]

Obviously the world net daily piece is written for maximum fag, but it's still pretty funny that Snopes is melting in a pile of crazy money drama.

 

[AnOminous]

I wouldn't worry about them.

They can just issue an article saying all this is false.

Obviously the world net daily piece is written for maximum fag, but it's still pretty funny that Snopes is melting in a pile of crazy money drama.

The real issue is it's turned into a business, and the business is now fighting with its founders, as happens ridiculously often.

It was founded by a couple, David and Barbara Mikkelson, who used to post on the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban way back in the antediluvian days when people were still literate and communicated in the English language, rather than the barbarism of today when people talk in emojis.

Anyway, everything was perfect then, SJWs didn't exist, and trolling was a fun activity you did with your family. Plus, no trannies allowed!

Unfortunately, it swelled up into a business, and then the business turned political and partisan, and you'd see the funny habit where certain people got "fact checked" more strenuously than others. And sometimes liars from one side got given a free "partly true" pass when others didn't.

The Mikkelsons themselves were always center right and genuinely dedicated to being accurate.

Now, though, Snopes is lots of people. And it's a corporation. And the corporation is in a fight with its founders. And everyone involved is hurling vile slurs at everyone else, apparently.

I find it kind of sad.

I miss the happy-go-lucky early days of the Internet, where it was entirely friendly when you called someone a cocksucker. Plus there were no trannies. Except one or two, and everyone laughed at them.

 

[Spawn]

APOLOGISE FOR TRIPLE POSTING YOU LEFTIST CUCK

MAKE ME YOU OPPEESSIVE TRIGGERING RIGHT WING BASTARD. TYRONE IS FUCKING YOUR WIFE AND SHE LOVES IT. YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE YOU EDGY SHITLORD.

 

[Dysnomia]

When someone complains about liberal bias, they typically mean "their facts interfere with muh buhleefs". They forget all the rumors that Snopes dispelled about the Bush administration.

I've never noticed any bias. I think people really do just get butthurt when their beliefs are challenged.

I used to check the site a lot for lulz. It's amazing what kind of stupid rumors people believe because some idiot on Facebook said so. I don't use social media. So I'm always surprised how many of these viral stories I've never even heard of.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I apologize for reviving this thread but timcast posted a vlog about Snopes menaged to find a new way to embarass themselves and Babylon Bee did that prediction nine months ago. https://www.redstate.com/streiff/20...ately-predicts-snopes-fact-check-nine-months/ ( http://archive.fo/9uWaU )

As we’ve documented, the faux fact-checking site, Snopes.com, is engaged in a campaign to have the satire site, BabylonBee, demonetized by Facebook and ideally to have them deplatformed altogether. Snopes, rather stupidly, claims that people are often fooled by BabylonBee headlines and that makes them dangerous. To back that claim up they’ve produced some of the most fraudulent research in the history of social science research and that, my friends, took a whole lot of doing. For it’s part, BabylonBee has engaged in its own campaign of subversion by relentlessly lampooning and mocking the nasty little SJWs at Snopes who are trying to silence them.

In January, Babylon Bee ran this story: https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1168314687642992640

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Sorry for the double post and double bump. But Snopes menaged to outdone themselves again on the road to irrelevance.

Snopes Retracts Dozens of Articles After Review Finds Co-founder Plagiarized

Snopes, a fact-checking website, has retracted at least 54 articles after finding that its co-founder and CEO had ...

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Snopes Retracts Dozens of Articles After Review Finds Co-founder Plagiarized

Snopes, a fact-checking website, has retracted at least 54 articles after finding its co-founder and CEO repeatedly plagiarized ...

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Snopes, a fact-checking website, has retracted at least 54 articles after finding its co-founder and CEO repeatedly plagiarized content from other websites.

David Mikkelson, the Snopes co-founder, has been suspended as the website completes an internal review of the issue.

The review so far has uncovered 54 stories that Mikkelson wrote using the pseudonym “Jeff Zarronandia” or were published under a generic “Snopes Staff” byline, Snopes senior management said in a statement on Friday.

The stories used “appropriated material,” the management said.

Mikkelson plagiarized entire paragraphs from news websites for the articles, according to an Epoch Times review of some of the articles.

For example, a 2015 story about Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis denying requests from gay couples for marriage licenses, matches nearly word-for-word a Reuters article about the development.

A 2016 story under Mikkelson’s name about the death of boxer Muhammad Ali pulled a paragraph from an NBC article.

Readers who go to the Snopes articles are met with an alert that the content has been retracted.

“The post was retracted because some or all of its content was taken from other sources without proper attribution,” the pages state.

Each page now includes a link to the stories from which Mikkelson plagiarized.

The plagiarism was first identified by BuzzFeed News, which contacted Snopes, triggering the internal investigation.

 

[LateNightMuffin]

snopes sucks tranny cock on anything associated with troonery. Whatever credibility they used to have was lost by their TRA bullshit.