buttery fistful
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this was going to happen eventually, though it doesn't take away how damn sad this is
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Daily Mail goes after fact-checking site Snopes
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The Daily Mail isn't the best-selling UK paper, the Sun is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation
The Mail isn't far behind, is far more poisonous and somehow has a largely middle-aged and older audience who still think it's a respectable rag with its general position of anything that happened after the 1950s is anethema to 'right-thinking Brits'. 'Right-thinking' being the operative term. Politicians are terrified of it because it's readership actually votes.
The Mail Online is the largest online news site though, with profits soaring and even 200 staff in the US these days, but like all papers the print edition is losing circulation and ad revenue year by year.
And the second biggest is exactly the same (Murdochs the sun).
How can so many people buy into bigotry and hate?
Because a large section of middle England are hateful individuals. The poor, migrants and anyone not right wing are all their favourite targets.
Miles Quaritch
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I'm sure you know what a smear piece is...
Fuck the Mail.
I've been forwarding an Indy article about "outrage" in Torrington that The Mail ran with to lots and lots of people. Thanks to whoever posted it on GAF. Was well worth a chuckle.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-torrington-unleashed-its-anger-a7463946.html
I've been forwarding an Indy article about "outrage" in Torrington that The Mail ran with to lots and lots of people. Thanks to whoever posted it on GAF. Was well worth a chuckle.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-torrington-unleashed-its-anger-a7463946.html
More Fun To Compute
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We were supposed to stop joking about the daily mail supporting the nazis in the 30s because everything had changed now but it seems that it's not even a joke any more.
hurricanes
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I don't see why they shouldn't report it if those allegations are true, embezzling company money for prostitutes goes much further than "like sex".
Of course, it's daily mail so there is likely chances that they speak out of their ass.
Of course, it's daily mail so there is likely chances that they speak out of their ass.
archangelmorph
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How can so many people buy into bigotry and hate?
Because they're bigoted and hateful and it affirms their worldview...
The war on news and facts is in full swing.
Alex Jones is also coopting the fake news concept and going on the offensive.
After years of nit giving a fuck, I feel the term "fake news" finaly revealed the emperor has no clothes, but their reaction is trying to convince their stupid readers that other news is fake.
As a skeptic, I never thought this would gonas far as it has, and this is just the beginning.
Alex Jones is also coopting the fake news concept and going on the offensive.
After years of nit giving a fuck, I feel the term "fake news" finaly revealed the emperor has no clothes, but their reaction is trying to convince their stupid readers that other news is fake.
As a skeptic, I never thought this would gonas far as it has, and this is just the beginning.
Silver Arrows
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What are you talking about? Who are you referring to?
Fulminator
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war on facts is actually terrifying
fuck this newspaper, i wish people weren't so quick to believe things
fuck this newspaper, i wish people weren't so quick to believe things
MagnaderAlpha
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Should be a war on stupidity, with harsh consequences on those peddling misinformation, and no coddling to those who proudly stew in their own ignorance.
Stumpokapow
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Whether the claims made are factual or not is irrelevant -- the divorce records and sexual histories of private citizens have nothing, even plausibly, to do with their public-facing roles as politically engaged individuals. It's a transparent smear campaign; when you can't knock down their work, you knock down them as people. Is there evidence that Snopes incorrectly fact-checks about pot or prostitutes owing to the allegations? No, not really, you're just meant to come up with the conclusion that fact checkers are scumbags and to ignore their valuable work.
That article reads really bizarrely, like its hundreds of words dedicated to how personally the author took the "no comment" and above all how he feels about it.
He even ends up saying it doesn't matter if the Daily Mail's article is true or not because Snope's response to him was so bad.
Sad to see that the attack on fact-checkers--especially a site as well-known and reputable as Snopes--has started to spread from the crazies into the mainstream.
I mean I saw a few people during the election season talking about how lol snopes is left-wing propaganda, but given its history I just drew the obvious conclusion that those people were morons. But this, ugh. For people who complain about politicization so much, the right's politicization of fact-checking is pretty pathetic.
I mean I saw a few people during the election season talking about how lol snopes is left-wing propaganda, but given its history I just drew the obvious conclusion that those people were morons. But this, ugh. For people who complain about politicization so much, the right's politicization of fact-checking is pretty pathetic.
They didn't even try with that Photoshop.
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thepotatoman
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I saw Breitbart, Daily Caller, and RedState all calling snopes leftist propaganda in the last week as well, after their recent partnership with Facebook.
Forbes "contributors" have about as much legitimacy as the Daily Mail.
It's all the same level of gutter trash "journalism".
Morrigan Stark
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Really summing up how we live in a post-truth world where feelings matter more than facts, huh. Incredible.
Nerdkiller
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I saw that happening before the election ended even. Multiple "they were 'wrong' one time on something so instead of reading them I'm just going to assume this article about clinton is true" posts. But I assume "omg I heard that guy had an affair" is just meant to help people continue to not bother to read articles or sources.
Chittagong
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But did they manage to shoehorn in the term 'pert derriere'? That is the real question.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I'm not surprised. Snopes has all the citations you could possibly want and is often one of the first results when you search a fake news report on Google; they would basically be public enemy number one for anti-truthers.
I'm actually anxiously awaiting the first time I get someone on Facebook trying to tear into me for sharing a Snopes link. For me, at least, people tend to just not engage any any further when I post a Snopes link.
I'm actually anxiously awaiting the first time I get someone on Facebook trying to tear into me for sharing a Snopes link. For me, at least, people tend to just not engage any any further when I post a Snopes link.
Alcoremortis
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If they could possibly win a libel lawsuit against Daily Mail, they should go for it. Daily Mail needs to go the way of Gawker.
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