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halpiamaquark

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    Comment #13190877

    I will restate my original comment more explicitly: "Because Politifact and Snopes are biased and opinion based, they are not credible to determine whether stories are 'fake'." I d…

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    Comment #13190320

    My argument is very simple but you apparently misunderstand. morgante guessed that I reject fact checking simply if it doesn't confirm my worldview. I rebutted that the fact checke…

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    Comment #13190012

    I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact. Facebook isn't going to be appending my critical analysis to alleged fake news stores.

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    Comment #13188561

    Let's see some statistical analysis that the fact checkers FB claims are disinterested arbiters of fact aren't in fact pushing an agenda before we go along with censorship maybe.

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    Comment #13188502

    Politifact and Snopes push their opinionated worldview as though it is objectively true and morally righteous.

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    Comment #13187175

    The kosher fact checkers list includes the biased and opinion-based Politifact and Snopes.

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    Comment #13187168

    The warnings may be discredited but the disputed stories will appear lower on the news feed according to FB. "Appear lower" is the least controversial way for FB to dip its toe in …

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    Comment #13092010

    >That's what electrons, and photons, and neutrons, etc, are. [...] They are bundles of probability amplitudes smeared out over space and time intervals. This is not a metaphor. Thi…