Posted on 02/13/2022 6:22:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The fact-checking industry may be the most laughable form of journalism ever. However, content creators should not ignore its influence. Once something is fact-checked as false, it may limit the distribution of the information on social media and web searches. Satire site Babylon Bee has fallen victim to ridiculous fact-checks from the left-leaning site Snopes. As noted by PJ Media at the time:
This is significant because one satire article Snopes marked as “false” resulted in Facebook threatening the Bee with limitations and demonetization. Facebook rightly apologized, admitting that satire is not the same as fake news, but the incident shows the danger of Snopes’ misleading attacks. Snopes withdrew from its partnership with Facebook in February 2019.
The dopes at Snopes either thought liberals were too stupid to get the joke, they were intentionally misleading to hurt the Bee, or parody and reality are getting more difficult to distinguish.
This weekend the news cycle was so slow, the legacy media fact-checked a meme. It’s not like John Durham just dropped a bombshell, or we appear to be on the verge of a land war in Europe or anything. Nope. The critical issue is a meme mocking CNN and the Biden administration:
A screenshot of a CNN report has been altered to add a bogus chyron claiming Russia is waiting to capture U.S. weapons before invading Ukraine.
The image was edited to place fake text on a real screenshot from a 2017 clip.https://t.co/K1DOOwMR0u
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) February 12, 2022
Twitter provided the following context when you clicked on the link under “What’s happening”:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
That just reminds me of that South African sign language guy who was faking it when Obama was giving a speech. He was right next to Obama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CujDuBthnOw
Ridicule drives authoritarians batty.
100% -— i’d still like to know what she’s actually saying
It’s not like John Durham just dropped a bombshell, or we appear to be on the verge of a land war in Europe or anything. Nope. The critical issue is a meme mocking CNN and the Biden administration...
That’s because leftists are completely humor challenged.
They have none and don’t approve of anyone who does.
Control freaks also cannot stand the thought of not being taken seriously.
It’s beginning to look a lot like East Berlin
everywhere I go ...
Agree.....that is their vulnerable weakness.
Its like fact-checking comedians.
When our side does it we are incredibly astute because ours aligns with the truth. Whey they do it it flops because its not funny whenits based on lies and fantasies.
Humor works when its real.
Superbowl 2022 Commerical - Let’s Go Brandon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vD8AllS2yA
In the world of immediate sub-titles the use of sign language for the hearing impaired is really not needed.
100%
ever see Trudope or gov Hoochie in NY?
they have TWO terps, boi and girl, and they are NEVER in sync and not always the same signs either... it’s nutz
The second video she is signing “see things pop up”… the finger up the hole is sign for something popping up out of nowhere.
The third she is running her closed hand back and forth across her other pointer finger is the sign for “practice”. As in to practice over and over.
Actually after looking at them again the 3rd she is saying “already practiced”.
The second she is saying that something popped up and we have to figure it out
Oh yeah… the first video she is saying to hold on or hang on.
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