01-30-2024, 03:26 PM
(01-30-2024, 01:45 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Here is another left leaning news fact checker delivering more fake news.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-hard-hat-debacle-latest-black-mark-left-leaning-fact-checking-site-snopes
Biden hard hat debacle is latest black mark for left-leaning, fact-checking site Snopes
The latest gaffe from Snopes over the weekend has put a spotlight on the fact-checking site’s left-leaning slant.
"Snopes is the kid that thinks they're the smartest student in the room and the apple of the teacher's eye, but in reality, they're the one everyone makes fun of for being a smart aleck," NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News Digital.
Snopes, which is largely taken as gospel by the media elite, has been referred to by CNN as "the internet’s oldest and best-known fact checker," and once partnered with Facebook on a truth-finding venture. Snopes' own website boasts that it has been cited in publications such as The New York Times and Washington Post, while staffers have appeared on ABC, CNN and NPR.
Snopes reversed one of its rulings over the weekend to admit that President Biden did, in fact, wear a construction hard hat backwards. Biden was pictured during a visit to union workers in Wisconsin and the photo showed Biden noticeably wearing the hard hat backwards, with the strap and tightening knob clearly visible.
Snopes' published an initial fact check, admitting the photo was authentic but insisting the president was correctly wearing the protective headwear.
"It does look, at first glance, like Biden was wearing that hard hat backwards. But after comparing it to other photos and videos of the same event, we were forced to reach the opposite conclusion: The hat on Biden's head was facing forward, bill to the front, not backward," Snopes initially claimed.
Social media users blasted Snopes, as hard hats universally have the tightening strap on the back. The liberal fact check site then issued an about-face.
"The prevailing counter-argument is that if the suspension of the hat has been purposely configured by its owner such that the bill and tightening knob are worn to the back (as was the case of the hat Biden wore), to wear that hat with the bill facing forward is, practically speaking, to wear it backwards. Therefore, it's argued, it's actually true that, in the photo op discussed below, Biden was wearing it backwards. The strap and tightening knob, which should have been behind Biden's head, were on his forehead," Snopes editors wrote in an updated version of the fact check.
SNOPES FACT-CHECKS ITS OWN CO-FOUNDER, CATCHES HIM PLAGIARIZING 54 ARTICLES FOLLOWING INTERNAL REVIEW
Snopes, you’re pissing down my leg, knock it off!
Snopes: FALSE, it’s raining.
