{"id":8212,"date":"2019-07-25T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2019-07-25T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:45:48","slug":"snopes-beclowns-itself-again-fact-checks-a-satire-news-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/07\/25\/snopes-beclowns-itself-again-fact-checks-a-satire-news-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Snopes beclowns itself again, &#8220;fact checks&#8221; a satire news site again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snopes fact checks <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/\">a satirical web site<\/a> that publishes humorous takes on contemporary news stories. A web site which states, right at the top of its page in bold letters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8214\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/georgia-lawmaker-go-back-claim\/\">Did a Georgia Lawmaker Claim a Chick-fil-A Employee Told Her to Go Back to Her Country?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I used to take Snopes seriously, not so much anymore. It is a self described &#8220;fact checker&#8221; that no longer has a clear sense of direction when they &#8211; <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">repeatedly<\/span> <\/em>&#8211; fact check satire labeled as satire.<\/p>\n<p>The Babylon Bee has responded quickly with these items:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8216\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/capture3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8218\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/capture3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snopes has not yet fact checked these \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Babylon Bee is having much fun torpedoing Snopes for fact checking a satire web site:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Voila_Capture-2019-07-25_03-57-38_PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8221\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Voila_Capture-2019-07-25_03-57-38_PM-1024x386.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8224\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"571\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snopes falls for it again and fact checks a satirical web site that prominently says it is &#8220;Fake news you can trust&#8221;. Seriously Snopes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}