[–] maltespier 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago (edited ago)
maybe 10 years ago, there used to be loads of these chain emails going around full of stories of extraordinary things happening like massive health scare over rats having orgies on coke cans, or quotes completely made up. Snopes used to debunk these claims and built a reputation on the internet for fact checking. It's like internet version of the tv show Mythbusters - these came out of all these things that kept getting sent to people before we had facebook, twitter youtube.
Since those early days, their brand of trustworthiness is now being used to defend democrats and anything liberal while Facebook use them to debunk "fake news". Libs will think that all they have to do is post a snopes article and look for the big red "false" image and not have to worry about thinking about it any more. It's why this article exists, as it forms the backbone of the apologism to try and make out liberals actually being the victim even when they're swinging glass bottles at peoples heads
The fight is already over. Someone somewhere said snopes was in charge and everyone said OK. People should have said snopes is in charge of nothing. Maybe everyone should just ignore snopes. Just like some drunk at abar who insists he's right about everything. Take away their power by not acknowledging them
[–] Holonomic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Snopes is nothing more than one or two people, operating out of their home using no more skill or access privileges than anyone else. I believe it use to be a husband and wife, but I don't know if that was, or is now the case. Once I learned that I chose to put little credibility in what they said.