Rumor Has It, Snopes on the Verge of Collapse?

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  1. Wehrwolfen

    Wehrwolfen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They started off trying to make everyone believe they were and independent impartial fact checking service. But then people found out it was run by left wingers with an agenda.
     
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    Just like a far right winger to cite a trashy right wing blog as a primary source. OF course the story in that trash blog was highly slanted.

    It whined that Snopes had attacked Gateway Pundit and Breitbart as "conspiracy theory" site.

    They ARE conspiracy theory websites and both have a long history of posting lies.

    You made up the part about Politifact.

    I generally don't spend much effort of fact check sites. I can read on my own. But I know right wing trash when I see it. And the only people on line that call Snopes bias, are the right wing trash sites that Snopes continually catches lying!
     
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    Is there any subject on which you are not in error? If you haven't been paying attention, this forum, and every other web site that depends on donations, regularly puts up ads asking for donations, or otherwise the site won't be able to continue.
     
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    Snopes does have an agenda
     
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    That is not what is going on with snopes though. All their ad money is being withheld related to a lawsuit having to do with among other things, who controls/owns the company. Their ad revenue partner is one of the companies with a purported ownership interest.
     
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    Theyd prolly get more donations if they told the truth occasionally....
     
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    Wehrwolfen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    All have eventually found to be funded somehow by George Soros through his "Open Society Foundation"
     
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    The pot calls the kettle black. As if your facts are solely from independent sources, like the NY Slimes, WaPo, Daily Kos, CNN, etc. All bias and all lying to the people, purveyors of disinformation and the Fifth Column for the Progressive Marxist Left.
     
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    They are pretty good with non-political urban legends.
     
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    Actually, I saw where they debunked lawn-chair Larry. This was an event that took place in Los Angeles. A man tied a bunch of helium weather balloons to a lawn chair and took off. He dropped his bb gun [intended to shoot the balloons so he could land] and ended up floating over LAX.

    They said it was bogus but I remember watching the live reports! They had to shut down LAX until he was clear off the area.
     
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    You mean this one http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/walters.asp :)
     
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    Hah, so they have corrected it! I see that inaccurate stories of this circulated in 97. That may have been what caused the confusion. It was originally listed as a false claim.

    It was a big deal when it happened. They played tapes from the tower operators who couldn't believe what they were hearing: We've got a guy in a lawn chair at 5000 feet. LOL!
     
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    If that was the case then how come that they have defended Trump after allegations were made against Trump such as this one http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/ ?

    Edited after my mistake has been pointed out :)
     
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    Oh, I meant defended Trump ;)
     
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    Does this work for you? :roflol:Something about Snopes. They intentionally ignore to comment on content that they know they can't slant, because it's a reputation killer. Their standard answer in those cases are either completely ignore or "we can neither confirm or deny". Even a blind squirrel finds and acorn once in a while.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...c48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.7b3dfb609a55
     
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    Lol. People who use terms like "progressive marxist left" and start frequent threads based on trash like the Gateway Dumbwit and the so-called "American Thinker" calling other sites "purveyors of disinformation" is hilarious. Maybe if you post from a few sites that aren't so far right that they are considered garbage by anyone but the farthest of the extreme right people would take you more seriously.
     
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    "The site, which was hoping to raise $500,000 from readers, had surpassed that goal with more than $520,000 in pledges as of Tuesday morning."

    Wasn't that something like a 2 or 3 day haul? I don't remember exactly the first time I heard this story,
     
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    Oh, did you just wake up to the fact that I've been using that term to identify the so-called Democratic Party for years. Even the moderators of the PF have finally recognized the Democratic Party as Marxist-Socialist. As far as using Gateway Pundit , American Thinker, etc., I use any source to make my points including the NY Slimes, WaPo, Huffpo, CNN and other various sources to make my point, whereas you seem to use one note sourcing.
     
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    Your threads read like the demented blog of some rambling right-winger who is off his meds.
     
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    That only proves that “There’s a sucker born every minute” as P.T. Barnum use to opine.
     

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