Snopes, a fact-checking website that has partnerships with Google and Facebook, incorrectly labeled a meme aimed at the President and a Fox News graphic. Now people are questioning the validity of the site.
Facebook and Google trust Snopes to verify if something is true or not, but the liberal leaning site made a big mistake with one meme aimed at Trump.
A picture of Trump and members of Congress and his administration took a picture on the White House lawn after they voted out Obamacare in 2017. The image that circled had big red X’s over people that Snopes claimed were voted out of office.
The thing is, the claim is not true and very misleading.
After we reached out to Snopes, they stealth-edited their inaccurate fact-check to claim “the persons actually pictured in the accompanying photograph are difficult or impossible to identify” (they aren’t) https://t.co/345mEIQNpR
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) December 7, 2018
After serious backlash, Snopes changed the details of the meme after saying it was “true”, they have now modified the statement to read, “Although memes are frequently grossly inaccurate, this one got the general idea and numbers correct (even if the persons actually pictured in the accompanying photograph are difficult or impossible to identify). By our count, at least 34 Republican legislators who voted to repeal or partially repeal Obamacare will not be returning to Congress when the new session begins in January 2019.”
The image is not hard to picture, and a fact checking website should be able to identify people in a photograph.
This is pretty insane. A guy tweeted a pic of congressmen with X’s on their faces, saying they were all voted out. When dozens of reporters noted it was incorrect, he deleted it and acknowledged its inaccuracies. Now, 3 weeks later, snopes for some reason rates it ‘true’
What?? https://t.co/wZJpHXly9A
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) December 7, 2018
Aside from the mistake on this image, the “fact-checking” site often takes shots at the president and conservatives. Even with the backlash, Snopes posted a picture of the president’s mother and mocked her hair.
Follow-up question: How does hair do that? https://t.co/T3sdDeV0hU
— snopes.com (@snopes) December 7, 2018
The site even says the claim that Fox News displayed a holiday graphic saying “Treason For The Season” is true. The actual graphic read, Reason For The Season with a cross. Read about it here.
Did Fox News display a “Treason for the Season” graphic? https://t.co/CTk9BXMm0w pic.twitter.com/lcX1cvRT9V
— snopes.com (@snopes) December 7, 2018
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At this point, can they still claim to be a fact-checking website or are they just a finding ways to support crazy liberal claims? At least Google and Facebook still trust them.
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