Snopes is truly disappointing and slanted. It’s early days it was a good reference tool… sadly in our divided times Snopes has clearly a political slant.
Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
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#12I have no love for these "fact checkers" which are nothing but mercenaries of the left but how does this revelation diminish the trust people should put on Snopes?
Re: Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
#13> Marchionni is reevaluating decisions Mikkelson made years earlier to not allow Snopes stories to be archived on the Wayback Machine and is empowered to make any changes necessary. Not the most immediate important thing, but hiding content from the Wayback Machine that is purported to be factual record is very problematic, to say the least
I’m still struggling to understand why they’d want to block that.
Edit: on re-reading I realize it’s so that they don’t get caught for this plagiarism since their modus operandi was plagiarize first rewrite slowly.
Re: Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
#14I have no love for these "fact checkers" which are nothing but mercenaries of the left but how does this revelation diminish the trust people should put on Snopes?
Other than the materially false statements? Gee, I guess nothing.
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#15Can someone explain what the difference between this and pulling stuff off the AP machine is? I see almost identical news articles all the time across major news outlets.
My partner used to work at a company and would write all their news, spotlights and press releases. They commonly would see paragraphs taken by major news outlets without attribution. She tells me that’s just how it was.
I’m not in the industry but I thought copying from press releases and AP/Reuters sources was fairly standard. I’m sure there is a lot more to it here but I’m asking what the distinction is. Certainly I feel like plagiarism in the news isn’t quite the same as it is elsewhere.
Re: Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
#16Snopes lost credibility when they teamed up with Facebook
Snopes lost credibility when they "fact checked" the Babylon Bee, a site which is clearly labeled as satire and never claimed to be real news.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/31/fact-c...
Re: Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
#17> Marchionni is reevaluating decisions Mikkelson made years earlier to not allow Snopes stories to be archived on the Wayback Machine and is empowered to make any changes necessary. Not the most immediate important thing, but hiding content from the Wayback Machine that is purported to be factual record is very problematic, to say the least
I’m still struggling to understand why they’d want to block that. Edit: on re-reading I realize it’s so that they don’t get caught for this plagiarism since their modus operandi was plagiarize first rewrite slowly.
So they can silently change stuff without the ability for someone to go back and look at what it used to say.
Re: Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
#18Snopes is truly disappointing and slanted. It’s early days it was a good reference tool… sadly in our divided times Snopes has clearly a political slant.
Can you provide an example of an article that you feel has a clear political slant?
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#19Plagiarism is wrong. It also isn't the same thing as publishing false or misleading information about the topic of the article plagiarized. In other words, the articles plagiarized don't become false or misleading because of the plagiarism.
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#20Snopes is truly disappointing and slanted. It’s early days it was a good reference tool… sadly in our divided times Snopes has clearly a political slant.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a sadly similar story. They're downright extreme nowadays.