#snope

[professorambrius]

Jeremy Hoax

Really people?

[im-your-spacedad-now]

@whyy-am-i-here

Shedding 🐍

[captainjonnitkessler]

Things I wish women were learning from true crime podcasts: how to spot early warning signs of abusive relationships, how to escape abusive relationships, how easily domestic violence can escalate to murder, how incredibly unlikely it is to be the victim of a crime done by a complete random stranger as opposed to friends and family

What women are learning from true crime podcasts: I am in CONSTANT danger and every day I survive without being murdered by a serial killer is a miracle. I should react to everyone I meet with distrust and paranoia and live my life as if I am in mortal peril and if anyone suggests that might not be healthy then they just don't understand what it is to Be A Woman In Today's Society

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by anonymous.

"Venezuelan Poodle Moth ^_^"

Photo by Dr. Arthur Anker, retrieved from Snopes.

[heckyeahponyscans]

Snopes.com was THE fact-checking / lie-debunking website in the 2000s, covering everything from lighthearted fare like "is this a picture of Bigfoot?" to rumors about Iraq War, which at the time often spread via chain emails or Dick Cheney.

Well, Snopes still exists and I encourage you to check it out. They will investigate until they find the primary source of a photo, a quote, an article. This is especially important in a world where AI is increasingly able to fool the human eye and human ear.

In case you were wondering, the status of the photos / articles I clipped for this post are:

Israel making a deal with BetterHelp - Real, and the company was founded by an IDF soldier who proudly brags about this fact in his online profile. Also they have previously been caught selling private medical information.

IDF soldier threatening a woman with children - Real picture but not from current conflict

Are Palestinians forbidden from collecting rainwater? Yes, and the situation is even more dire than the headline makes it sound. Really recommend this article for a deeper understanding of the discrimination the Palestinians suffered even prior to the current conflict.

Did Israel use white phosphorus on Gaza? The evidence strongly points to yes. This article is VERY good, very well-researched.

[thevideowall]

Is this what snopes.com is about?

[kaijuno]

“Snapped this picture while waiting in line at the Dutch Bros on 138th today. Turns out the young lady in line ahead of us lost her husband last night.

When the DB guys noticed she was struggling, they stopped and prayed with her.”

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Snopes: Some people were asking if this story about slaves putting maps in their cornrows is true.  (archive)

Snopes: Does it really matter when we started a conversation?

Also snopes: Yes, only 1.6% of Americans owned slaves, but does that matter when slavery was really, really important to America? (archive)

Sorry, Snopes, blaming all white people for slavery is still racist and wrong, especially when many of them actually opposed slavery.

America fought the deadliest war* in its entire history over it.

Also, I just want to explicitly point out that the latter article is essentially saying black people’s “racial animus” (read:racial hatred) toward white people is justified, even though a) nobody alive was a pre-Civil war slave, and b) most white Americans and their ancestors rocked up after the Civil War.

Also, most black Atlantic slaves were bought secondhand from other Africans. Just look at Dahomey.

* In terms of American lives lost.

[sher-ee]

This right here 👆🏻

He said it.

Republicans can continue to reject the truth and deem everything they don’t want to hear “fake news”, but Trump said it.

[lizardsfromspace]

It's very hard to look up anything related to Snopes not just bc their website was until recently excluded from the Wayback Machine, but bc they cover the most random bullshit and it's hard to find anything

Like, this is the featured story on their website right now

Why are they factchecking this? What are they factchecking? Did someone take this out of context and claim it wasn't from a movie, like how QAnon types clip Bosom Buddies out of context?

No, it's because someone responding to a tweet ABOUT TROPIC THUNDER commented on the blackface. So Snopes had to factcheck that this tweet about Tropic Thunder is, in fact, from Tropic Thunder

But if you click the thread the OP admits it was a joke? And ragebait? He said that on the 13th and they published this featured article today. Did they have to spend a week researching Tropic Thunder?

Snopes is now just full of articles like this, where I'm legit unsure what claim is being evaluated and why. It makes it extremely hard to find anything via their search bc it's clogged up with so much low-effort garbage debunking random tweets and slideshows no one ever believed. Here they essentially had to make a claim up - they took someone's joke seriously and ignored that it openly said the photo's from Tropic Thunder, in order to, I don't know, invent from whole cloth some misinformation about if Robert Downey Jr. wore blackface outside the movie, so that they could debunk misinformation that isn't real?

"The viral post was taken out of context" Was it? Was it taken out of context when it literally says it's from Tropic Thunder??? Does a site that didn't once see that the thread was a joke/ragebait over the course of a week's research really have the right to lecture anyone about context? And this is featured! This is the BEST of what they have to offer!

Anyway just a reminder that everything good on Snopes was written by the creator's wife and he upgraded it into a instant political factchecking site overnight by hiring random people off his forums

[deancasforcutie]

Wake up bro it's 2005, conspiracy theories now hitting teh interwebz are so funny haha... Threatening US democracy with fascism? Misinformation crisis led by foreign agents and artificial intelligence and our own whose "memes" distract from it all by pretending their illiterate "discourse" on tv matters/gets to deprive us of escapism and catharsis we'd sorely need? Sounds like you've been reading too much Weekly World News roflmao come on let's go watch Supernatural XD

[floridaboiler]

source - https://twitter.com/ZOrtiz99

some more details about this photo:

Snopes Link - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/time-perfect-body/

[anarchywoofwoof]

don't bullshit me

[kindanathy]

Not amazed but irritated, and surely it ended being a recipe book (lol)

Thank you @tea-and-magic , my brother and i were laughing so hard thinking about multiple situations with this idea! HAHAH I'm definitely making this with a younger version of snope

[feybeasts]

Natural gas vents and unexploded hellbombs aren’t actually natural tactical assets you can use to deal with enemies in HD2, btw. They’re actually in the game so I specifically can stim by blowing them up to hear and see the really good explosions, Arrowhead said so, ask them.

[odinsblog]

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