Snopes, Which Will Be Fact-Checking For Facebook, Employs Leftists Almost Exclusively
Alex Pfeiffer and Peter Hasson
10:21 PM 12/16/2016
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/16/sn...t-exclusively/
Snopes, which will now have the power to declare what news is or is not legitimate on the world’s largest online platform,
almost exclusively employs leftists.
Facebook announced Thursday that mythbusting website Snopes will be one of a few fact-checking organizations allowed to label stories as “fake news.”
Almost all of the writers churning out fact checks for Snopes have a
liberal background, and many of them have
expressed contempt for Republican voters. The Daily Caller
could not identify a single Snopes fact-checker who comes from a conservative background.
Snopes did not respond to a list of questions from TheDC regarding the site’s ideological leaning.
At least two of the site’s fact-checkers joined Snopes after writing for
Raw Story, a far-left publication that describes itself as a “progressive news site that focuses on stories often ignored in the mainstream media.” Several others have demonstrated liberal partisanship....
...Just last week, Emery
butchered the truth while
attempting to fact-check a story from The Daily Caller News Foundation....
(RELATED: CAUGHT: Snopes Deliberately Omits Key Details To Protect Kerry’s State Dept)
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/09/ca...ys-state-dept/
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CAUGHT: Snopes Deliberately Omits Key Details To Protect Kerry’s State Dept.
Ethan Barton
7:05 PM 12/09/2016
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/09/ca...ys-state-dept/
A Snopes.com article attempting to discredit a Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group news story revealing that
millions of Department of State tax dollars were sent to a charity created by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter was
loaded with factual errors and omissions.
The Peace Corps awarded more than $9 million of State Department money to Dr. Vanessa Kerry’s nonprofit for a program she established in conjunction with officials from both agencies. Most of those funds were awarded while Kerry’s father was the nation’s chief diplomat.
The DCNF’s Sept. 12, 2016, article by
Investigative Group reporter Ethan Barton was based entirely on
multiple government documents and thorough research. The Sept. 12 story was the first of nearly a dozen Kerry revelations.
Snopes.com writer David Emery criticized TheDCNF’s reporting
nearly three months later in a Thursday article,
but presented no evidence that refuted TheDCNF’s findings. The so-called “investigator of urban legends, rumors, hoaxes & all manner of codswallop,” according to his Twitter bio, also made
numerous false statements, starting with the first sentence....