Snopes released from Fed lawsuit - with a vengeance
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As you may know, Snopes.com has been a favorite whipping-boy of the Trumpist movements - including a member of their own board of directors (Christopher Richmond)!
In a stinging rebuke of Richmond (and his Atty: Matthew Hrutkay), a Federal Judge ruled in late Sept that their lawsuits were "without merit" and were a clear attempt to harass the company. As a result, not only was the suit dismissed, but the Court also sanctioned the plaintiffs - they have to pay Snope's legal fees, among other penalties.
Background
Snopes.com has a well-earned reputation for UNBIASED evaluation of FACTS. Founded by a husband & wife (now divorced), in 1994, and becoming Snopes.com in 2003, it established itself as a defacto reference for debunking "urban legends" and "myths". It has been referenced by many major media outlets over the years.Things with Snopes.com got "dicey" in 2014 when the couple were divorced - they split the "company." Then, in 2016, the ex-wife sold her shares to Christopher Richmond (and another investor, essentially the principles of Proper Media - the company that provided them with hosting and website design/maintenance). They (Richmond, et. al) promptly put themselves on the board of directors at Snopes.
But fireworks between original owner, David Mikkelson, and Richmod resulted in Snopes.com FIRING Proper Media in 2017. (Richmond was not happy? LOL)
Richmond sued his own company in California court - and lost (that case is being appealed), but then (after the CA court loss) also in Federal court.
The issue (and why this is important HERE!) is that Snopes.com has debunked dozens or even hundreds of Trumpist lies (ok, claims - but Snopes agrees they're false!), and our resident Trump Extremists (aka: Trumpists) like to point to this litigation as-if it was proof that the site was biased.
In truth, the site has been evaluated for fairness many times - and in each case, they have been shown to have demonstrated NO POLITICAL BIAS.
Jan Harold Brunvand, a folklorist who has written a number of books on urban legends and modern folklore, considered the site so comprehensive that in 2004 he decided not to launch one of his own to similarly discuss the accuracy of various legends and rumors.
In 2009, FactCheck.org reviewed a sample of Snopes' responses to political rumors regarding George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama, and found them to be free from bias in all cases.[30][31] In 2012, The Florida Times-Union reported that About.com's urban legends researcher found a "consistent effort to provide even-handed analyses" and that Snopes' cited sources and numerous reputable analyses of its content confirm its accuracy. Mikkelson has said that the site receives more complaints of liberal bias than conservative bias, but added that the same debunking standards are applied to all political urban legends.
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Snopes has been proven to have lied on several occasions. There are threads here on the subject. Tim Pool and many others on YouTube have made videos about it.
Of course, you being a Chinese operative, want us to worship Chop Suey Joe.
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@raphjd said in Snopes released from Fed lawsuit - with a vengeance:
Snopes has been proven to have lied on several occasions. There are threads here on the subject. Tim Pool and many others on YouTube have made videos about it.
Of course, you being a Chinese operative, want us to worship Chop Suey Joe.
Snopes has gotten things wrong in the past - and when proven wrong, they have corrected their site! Not with some little add-on later... they update the original post so that anyone ELSE who searches for it, only gets the correct content.
If you want infallibility, look to FOX NEWS!
If you want provable facts, Snopes isn't a bad place to start. And if you're butt-hurt because they expose your Russian Troll Farm dirt, so be it!
They expose Leftist lies as much as they do Rightist lies - and the research shows that to be true!
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Yeah, SNOPES has gotten things wrong before, because they are biased.
They play word games to justify their "false" claims.
There are plenty of videos out there that show it.
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@raphjd said in Snopes released from Fed lawsuit - with a vengeance:
Yeah, SNOPES has gotten things wrong before, because they are biased.
They play word games to justify their "false" claims.
There are plenty of videos out there that show it.
Anything not 100% in support of your Trumpist views is "biased"... Snopes is, in my experience, one of the LEAST biased sites out there...
- when a fact can be supported, they say so
- when a fact can be disprove, they say so
- when there isn't enough to say definitely one way or the other, they say so!
Videos from right-wing (or left-wing, for that matter) sites who don't like Snopes setting the record straight are hardly "unbiased" reviews...
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Please, Mary.
You are such a loser that you refuse to look at any evidence that doesn't support your liberal crackhead worldview. You have repeatedly shown that here.
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@raphjd said in Snopes released from Fed lawsuit - with a vengeance:
Please, Mary.
You are such a loser that you refuse to look at any evidence that doesn't support your liberal crackhead worldview. You have repeatedly shown that here.
Blah blah - I'm a liberal... I'm anti-Trump... I'm a RINO... I'm a [insert attempted insult here]...
My posts show facts and opinions (the primary ones, anyway)... yours spout opinions... you go boy...
The problem now is that the only opinion you want to share is the one that you don't like my facts... too bad.
You can win the insult war - I couldn't care less about your opinion of me...
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