re: Snopes in trouble, looking for the internet to bail it out #SaveSnopes (UPDATE)

Honestly, there has never been a valid reason that Snopes was the "go to" place for fact checking. This sentence really says it all.

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Snopes.com, which began as a small one-person effort in 1994

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They made their brand basically being glorified net surfers who "fact checked".

People somehow bought in to the idea that there was a such thing as an entity that somehow "knows" all the "is that true" questions.

The entire concept of "fact checking" sites, if you really think about it, makes no sense whatsoever.

But, the bottom line for Snopes is that they COULD have just stayed some site that googles where other people don't have the time to google. But instead, they began to be political.

Some might think I mean political simply in being wrong on their checking. But, you can be political as frick in the fact checking business simply by what you CHOOSE to fact check or NOT fact check.

Now, they want to be saved but, they spent the last several years thumbing their noses at the very basis for their existence. At least PERCEIVED impartiality.

So. They'll die. It's not that big a deal. There's nothing special about Snopes vs any other fact checkers.