01-16-2013, 12:03 AM
I never meant for this to get political. I would be interested in which stories snopes has a bias on with citations to reveal the bias. As you all may know, after 10 years in the media business I am not a fan of politicians and while I do not post on the political side, I still have a watchdog mentality when it comes to the BS that falls out of all politicians mouths. I have found snopes citations for the stories I have looked at and followed up later with my own research to so far show fact busting.
If snopes works great, if other fact check work for you then so be it. Just make sure the citations aren't of some tv or radio talk show host whose job it is to interject opinion as well.
Some of the things I have seen passed on facebook and email are just flat out untrue due to any supporting evidence. The moment something starts with "I knew a guy who told a guy who experienced..." is not sufficient citation.
If snopes works great, if other fact check work for you then so be it. Just make sure the citations aren't of some tv or radio talk show host whose job it is to interject opinion as well.
Some of the things I have seen passed on facebook and email are just flat out untrue due to any supporting evidence. The moment something starts with "I knew a guy who told a guy who experienced..." is not sufficient citation.