The Guardian:
Snopes.com, a hugely popular fact-checking site which debunks urban legends, old wives’ tales, fake news, shoddy journalism and political spin. It started as a hobby in the internet’s Pleistocene epoch two decades ago and evolved into a professional site that millions now rely on as a lie-detector. Every day its team of writers and editors interrogate claims ricocheting around the internet to determine if they are false, true or somewhere in the middle – a cleaning of the Augean stables for the digital era.
I’ve been a huge fan of Snopes for decades. Whenever you hear something “incredible” on the internet, do a search for it on Snopes.
I like the term “post-truth era”. It might be even better than my ten year old term, “post-shame” era.
See Harper et al in Canada and Trump, Palin, et al in the U.S.
I notice Clinton is missing from your list. No need to guess your party.
I’m more than a little concerned by the worship of Snopes. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
You can try, but you’d be wrong.
Juvenal ‘s maxim notwithstanding, suggesting users check Snopes is code for “don’t just fucking blindly repost any and every internet screed that happens to cross your digital path without even a modicum of research”. At least that’s how I read it.
Juvenal’s maxim notwithstanding, suggesting users check Snopes is code for “don’t just fucking blindly repost any and every internet screed that happens to cross your digital path without even a modicum of research”. At least that’s how I read it