Facebook Is STILL ‘Fact Checking’ Christian Satire Article After Saying It Was A ‘Mistake’
By Anders Hagstrom
Facebook’s “Related Articles” fact check feature is still warning readers away from a satirical Babylon Bee article, nearly a day after the tech giant claimed to have rectified the mistake Friday.
Facebook mistakenly threatened the satire site The Babylon Bee with demonetization and reduced viewership after the left-leaning Snopes website “fact checked” one of its blatantly satirical articles Thursday. Facebook told The Daily Caller News Foundation that it had rectified the mistake Friday, but Babylon Bee Founder and Editor Adam Ford claimed readers were still seeing the article being fact-checked, with Snopes’ fact check being highlighted under the article. TheDCNF has now confirmed that is the case, but Facebook maintains that the article isn’t being penalized and doesn’t have a “false” rating, Facebook spokeswoman Lauren Svensson told TheDCNF….
Fact-Checking Snopes: Website’s Political ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Just A Failed Liberal Blogger
By Peter Hasson
Popular myth-busting website Snopes originally gained recognition for being the go-to site for disproving outlandish urban legends -such as the presence of UFOs in Haiti or the existence of human-animal hybrids in the Amazon jungle.
Recently, however, the site has tried to pose as a political fact-checker. But Snopes’ “fact-checking” looks more like playing defense for prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton and it’s political “fact-checker” describes herself as a liberal and has called Republicans “regressive” and afraid of “female agency.”
Snopes’ main political fact-checker is a writer named Kim Lacapria…..