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It's pretty funny Snopes has to fact check this to set the record straight

Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:31 pm
Posted by stout
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:31 pm
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:34 pm to
Insert "it'sthesamepicture" meme
Posted by lsuguy84
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Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:34 pm to
Which one is "she" in each of the pictures?
Posted by JackieTreehorn
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:34 pm to
Big Mike
Posted by meauxses
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:35 pm to
What's worse? Correcting it or believing it?
Posted by stout
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:36 pm to
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or believing it?



Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:36 pm to
So they just adjusted the contrast and color?
This post was edited on 12/5/23 at 3:40 pm
Posted by fightin tigers
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:39 pm to
Is that Juvenile?
Posted by High C
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:40 pm to
Who made Snopes the authority on truth, anyway?
Posted by stout
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:41 pm to
Because they used to be unbiased and everyone trusted them.
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:42 pm to
Posted by WB Davis
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Obama


Posted by Martini
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:47 pm to
The left one she is more mustachie.

Had some nappy hair too. Used to call the burr heads.
Posted by LSUfanNkaty
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:50 pm to
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Used to call the burr heads.



Posted by tonydtigr
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:51 pm to
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Who made Snopes the authority on truth, anyway?



I’d tell you, but everyone would say take this shite to the political board if I did.
This post was edited on 12/5/23 at 3:52 pm
Posted by Displaced
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:52 pm to
I think that's Patrick Ewing
Posted by Tammany Tom
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 3:55 pm to
Friday was an extremely bad day for “fact-checkers” everywhere, as one of the media’s most beloved “fact-checkers,” Snopes, was itself publicly fact-checked.

It was fact-checked by BuzzFeed News, which published findings of an investigation showing that Snopes’ head honcho, co-founder David Mikkelson, is a “troll” who’s been blatantly lying to the site’s “millions of readers” about a variety of topics.

“Mikkelson … has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news. But he has been lying to the site’s tens of millions of readers,” BuzzFeed News reported.

Though not mentioned by BuzzFeed, the site in general also has a track record for extreme left-wing bias — as, in fact, do virtually all mainstream “fact-checkers“:
Posted by LoneStar23
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 4:02 pm to
Big Mike attends Christmas: colorized, circa 1991
Posted by StringedInstruments
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 4:09 pm to
I thought they were fact checking that she was close to the Christmas tree. I couldn’t tell they were different pictures.
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