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Do You Trust Snopes? You Won't After Reading This.

The big players in the GMO and agrochemical industry – Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta, DuPont – are engaging in an extensive public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaigning to make sure that genetically engineered crops (GMOs), and the chemical pesticides they require, continue...

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I hate Foodbitch so much.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

That certainly is a thread title.

 

[iconmaster]

It’s interesting to look past the Foodbabe article to the linked 2016 Forbes (contributor!) article criticizing Snopes’ lack of clarity on its own fact-checking processes:

Regardless of whether the Daily Mail article is correct in its claims about Snopes, at the least what does emerge from my exchanges with Snopes’ founder is the image of the ultimate black box presenting a gleaming veneer of ultimate arbitration of truth, yet with absolutely no insight into its inner workings. While technology pundits decry the black boxes of the algorithms that increasingly power companies like Facebook, they have forgotten that even the human-powered sites offer us little visibility into how they function.

At the end of the day, it is clear that before we rush to place fact checking organizations like Snopes in charge of arbitrating what is “truth” on Facebook, we need to have a lot more understanding of how they function internally and much greater transparency into their work.

 

[ManaByte]

It’s interesting to look past the Foodbabe article to the linked 2016 Forbes (contributor!) article criticizing Snopes’ lack of clarity on its own fact-checking processes:

Snopes was reliable up until 2016 or so.

 

[Goro Majima]

I get irrationally angry when people go after GMOs and glyphosate. The studies that show glyphosate are "carcinogenic" are weird outliers and stand in harsh contrast to decades of studies suggesting otherwise.

The whole anti-GMO movement as a whole smacks of "beware the toxins!" Dr. Oz style branded mumbo jumbo.

 

[dave_d]

Snopes was reliable up until 2016 or so.

I just read the snopes article on "did Biden lie when he said his wife was killed by a drunk driver?" Man, they really stretched on that one. (They so wanted Biden to be telling the truth.)