Posted on 06/22/2023 6:52:50 PM PDT by lowbridge
Left-wing “fact-checking” site Snopes tried to place some of the blame for the loss of the ill-fated Titan submersible on Elon Musk, but a little thing called “facts” got in the way of its partisan hackery.
The site initially tried to tar Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet services with vague links to the company that launched the submersible that went missing Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland. Authorities announced Thursday that they had found debris from the submersible and that the occupants are believed deceased.
In its June 20 “fact-check” piece, entitled “Was the Missing Titanic Submersible Using Satellites from Elon Musk’s Company?” Snopes claimed that the submersible that went missing “relied” on Starlink for communications.
“OceanGate, the company behind the submersible that went missing in June 2023 on a Titanic wreckage exploration, relied on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites to provide communications during the expedition,” the “claim” segment read.
The “rating” Snopes gave to the so-called fact-check was “True.”
You can see that original post on the internet site Wayback Machine, which archives past website postings.
But hours later, the site made an about-face and gave the claim an “unproven” rating after Twitter’s community notes took Snopes to school with actual scientific facts.
Then, after more alterations to its post, the “fact-check” suddenly switched to a “false” rating.
Now, the Snopes page reads as a “false” rating and features four updates telling readers that the story was “amended” to “add details.”
The “false” rating suddenly showed up after Snopes got a community note on its own tweet about its false “fact-check.”
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Whoops turns out Elon had nothing to do with building that tin can POS
Anytime any “fact checkers” from Snopes or any media outlet for that matter issue a “True” decree - you can automatically know that it is indeed false.
Hope Elon hires an attorney, funds them well, and bankrupts the Snopes hacks with their fax machine operation.
I quit reading ANYTHING Snopes had to say YEARS AGO.
Elon Musk’s satellite system may have allowed the sub to find the location of the Titanic, but it did nothing to compel the owner to go 12500 feet under sea.
Wasn’t Snopes started by a couple of old liberal hacks that had nothing better to do?
Wow. Starlink Internet to the mothership has NOTHING to do with the comms between the mothership and the submersible. Only morons would try that argument. Which well-describes Snopes.
Like Elon would be on board with a woke POS like that
Snopes is Dung Beetle lingo for Full of Crap.
Can he sue Snopes for libel. You made a known false statement about a corporation which caused harm.
Hell trump was sued and lost for saying he would not bang someone.
Ping - to keep you updated on Musk’s
involvement. Fact checkers, my eye!
In Texas, ranchers have their methods
to rid themselves of pests such as these.
So what if it had? Is the satellite signal detectable 2+ miles deep in the ocean? Is Musk negligent if it isn’t?
Journalists are such idiots.
*believed deceased* when the sub imploded that far under water?
What are the other options??????
WOW! Not only did they try toblame it on Musk, but they forgot to place any blame on President Trump.
Boy Howdy! The really screwed the pooch this time.
have avoided the Titan news explosion all week. every angle was explored. meanwhile, not a word worldwide on Durham hearings and the rest. I agree with Miranda:
22 June: Tweet: Miranda Devine (NY Post)
The Biden administration knew the Titan submarine imploded Sunday. But waited until today to make it public. Convenient smokescreen for today’s House Ways & Means release of IRS whistleblower testimony of DOJ sabotage of the Hunter Biden investigation.
https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1672015817653796864?cxt=HHwWgIC24eDhmLQuAAAA
22 June: WSJ Exclusive: U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago
Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy
By Ben Kesling, Nancy A. Youssef, Gordon Lubold and Costas Paris
A top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard what the U.S. Navy suspected was the Titan submersible implosion hours after the submersible began its voyage, officials involved in the search said...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-detected-titan-sub-implosion-days-ago-6844cb12
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Snoops isn’t believable on anything.
“Fact checker” is the progressive way of spelling “pathological liar”.
As in Snopes, twitter, facebook, instagram, google, youtube, et al., are “fact checkers”.
It wasn't a "tin can." it was made out of carbon fiber composite. That's probably a major contributor to the catastrophic loss.
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