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EXCLUSIVE: Facebook 'fact checker' who will arbitrate on 'fake news' is accused of defrauding..
Daily Mail Co. (UK) ^ | 21 December 2016 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 12/21/2016 6:47:58 PM PST by Texas Fossil

One of the websites Facebook is to use to arbitrate on 'fake news' is involved in a bitter legal dispute between its co-founders, with its CEO accused of using company money for prostitutes.

Snopes.com will be part of a panel used by Facebook to decide whether stories which users complain about as potentially 'fake' should be considered 'disputed'.

But the website's own troubles and the intriguing choice of who carries out its 'fact checks' are revealed by DailyMail.com, as one of its main contributors is disclosed to be a former sex-blogger who called herself 'Vice Vixen'.

Snopes.com will benefit from Facebook's decision to allow users to report items in their newsfeed which they believe to be 'fake'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1984; bigbother; bigbrother; democratscandals; facebook; fakenews; internet; mediabias; news; orwelliannightmare; payforplay; prostitute; prostitution; sexscandal; snopes; snopesbias; stalinisttactics; vicevixen
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You simply cannot make up this kind of crap.

And these are the arbiters of what is "fake news" and what is "real news"? Headshake.

God Help US all.

1 posted on 12/21/2016 6:47:58 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

No one believes Snopes, so that is a very poor choice for “fact checker. “ unless you’re a Liberal Democrat.


2 posted on 12/21/2016 6:52:52 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Texas Fossil

Sad thing? The leftists do not care. Like with the hoax hate crimes. They don’t care if the stories are true as long as the narrative of “evil whitey” gets spread around. Nothing they do is about truth or reality.


3 posted on 12/21/2016 6:53:03 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Texas Fossil

Got a Snopes link so I can check the truthiness of this allegation?

< /sarc >


4 posted on 12/21/2016 6:53:04 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: snarkytart

Stalinists lie. Always


5 posted on 12/21/2016 6:54:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: snarkytart

The Reality of Modern Liberalism exists within the boundaries of Illusion, Lies, Deception and Fraud.

It is as totally conjured as Obama’s past.


6 posted on 12/21/2016 6:57:03 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Well, gee whiz, what good is it to be a company CEO and not be able to use the money for prostitutes ?


7 posted on 12/21/2016 6:59:34 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

smile.

This can only happen with the Loonie Left. I assume they are in CA?


8 posted on 12/21/2016 7:00:41 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Saw a click bait video the other day that had Denzel Washington stating that if you
don’t read the newspaper your not informed. If you do read the newspaper your misinformed.

Trust but verify was good advice from President Reagan that I still try to follow to this day.

Stay Safe and as far away from Facebook as possible.


9 posted on 12/21/2016 7:01:21 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Texas Fossil

As long as pizzagate gets covered up all is good. /sarc.

Think it is fake news? Search David Seaman, an ex Huffington Post reporter who was fired. Before this story broke Comet Pizza, an ostensibly “kid friendly” place had a poster in the men’s room that had the tag line “Shut up and F**k.” Now it has been removed.

Remember, who thought priests were pedophiles? Of course that was covered extensively because they are Catholics.
But the left is pulling out all the stops to cover this up because it will totally destroy them.


10 posted on 12/21/2016 7:08:00 PM PST by Kenny500c
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“because it will totally destroy them.”

May it be so.


11 posted on 12/21/2016 7:11:30 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Squantos

for many many years I read 2 newspapers each morning.

But for the past 20 year I have not subscribed to any newspaper. There is no news to be found there. It is also true with Network TV.

It is pure propaganda.

AP = Always Propaganda


12 posted on 12/21/2016 7:13:30 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
One of the websites Facebook is to use to arbitrate on 'fake news' is involved in a bitter legal dispute between its co-founders, with its CEO accused of using company money for prostitutes.

As long as they weren't fake prostitutes ...

13 posted on 12/21/2016 7:29:26 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Texas Fossil

Will expressing one’s opinion have to be vetted for being “fake news.” Slippery slope.


14 posted on 12/21/2016 7:32:41 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Squantos

A lot of the quotes attributed to celebrities are, themselves, “fake news,” never uttered by them.


15 posted on 12/21/2016 7:34:56 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Squantos

The bit about reading the newspapers to be misinformed is reputed to have originated with Samuel Clemens.


16 posted on 12/21/2016 8:01:12 PM PST by chb
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To: Texas Fossil

It’s like Martha Raddatz as debate moderator. Everyone pretends there’s no problem while everyone knows there is a problem.
I thought she would cry Nov. 8th late night.


17 posted on 12/21/2016 8:13:33 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: chb

Good info .... I just saw the recent video . Thanks.


18 posted on 12/22/2016 2:46:28 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: luvbach1

No I saw the video of Denzel. If he quoted someone else ok. I just referred to the video I saw. It wasn’t fake news, he didn’t make a claim of ownership just made a statement on the issue to a presstitute asking.

Merry Christmas ..... sorry thats fake as I didn’t originally come up with it. (disclaimer some here seem to require)


19 posted on 12/22/2016 2:52:46 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Texas Fossil

I just surf the assorted sources from the left, right, foreign and domestic sources and dissect it as best possible then go to the farmers table at our local diner for breakfast to hear the opinions of folks I know aren’t on facebook......:o)

Usually results are closer to fact when weighed in such a manner.

Then there is FR added.


20 posted on 12/22/2016 3:00:00 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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