SonofThunder peace
12/20/16 9:35 am
Cross referencing will always be the tried and true method. Give all that power to snopes etc, and someone will get in there and mess it up.
Soxfan824 Jesus was a liberal
12/19/16 4:42 pm
Enough with that tired liberal media bias argument. The election had a Russian hacker bias and you were all too busy pointing fingers at CNN and NBC to notice. Plus you now have Bannon in the White House -- given Trump's comfort with denying facts, this administration might as well have the Iraqi information minister.
eradicator JC
12/17/16 9:33 pm
Here's the deal with the Trumpster code, let me break it down:
LIBERAL = Zionist
ELITE =Zionist
SOCIALIST = Zionist
NEO-CON = Zionist
Et Cetera ad nauseum
It's all about hate, paranoia, and fear. If you're in denial or duped about what's at the root of the hardcore devotion.
Listen guys, we're all being f*cked by the globalism nonsense, but you've got it all wrong if you're looking for specific SCAPEGOATS (finite number of bad actors).
We're all in this together, facing TRENDS AND FORCES. EMERGENT PHENOMENON.
IDontCare1999
12/17/16 5:47 pm
Snopes is ran by a couple of old fat fucks with several cats and Politifact is WRONG all the damn time. Its a fucking joke that Facebook is doing this. The solution is a simple one if Mark Zuckerberg wants to censor free speech and bury news than lets bury him, he is only human.
liam2013 iowa
12/17/16 1:46 pm
If these groups fail to do a good job, they will lose all credibility and another monitoring agency would need to replace them. We can't let fake or false news and lies go unchallenged. In time some neutral fact checking unbias organization will emerge that the public will trust. It up to us to keep any monitoring group honest.
WallyBarbuckle
12/17/16 8:26 am
FUCK NO! They're all funded by George Soros. The guy funding color revelations around the world and paying for snipers in Ukraine and Dallas, funding the migrant flow, funding Hillary. They guy is a parasite. Not to mention he won all his money betting against the U.K. economy. Who knew you could bet against an entire countries economy. Some stock market we've got!
And regardless of that mess, Facebook is 100% untrustworthy in general just like all mainstream media outlets. Haven't told the truth once since Bush became president (and I didn't pay attention before that).
pr3ttypee Brooklyn, NY
12/17/16 6:18 am
It's way more complex than it sounds. You'd have to do tons of background research, contacting the organizations/individuals that's published it, etc. with this opinionated world, you simply can't track everything everyone says. Let alone Facebook. Get Google on the job
pjpony Sacramento, CA
12/17/16 12:22 am
Oh my gosh. I don't think you people understand what they mean by fake news. They're talking about the kinds of articles that you see on Facebook etc that you would call "click bait". These articles have sensational headlines and when you click on them there are advertisements and pop ups all over and you have to click through 30 pages to read the story. People end up thinking these are legitimate because the sites are always called something like "freedom news" or "USA press" that sound realistic and is something people want to identify with
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truspec Texas
12/17/16 12:02 am
Mostly. It's probably the best option if "fake news" must be labeled. I trust it much more than if facebook itself did the labeling
Wes28 CBus
12/16/16 10:28 pm
I used to respect politifact but I've found that they're pretty biased too, now that I've done some research :(
tractorman Oklahoma
12/16/16 9:17 pm
Look at over 50% of morons who prefer fake news to real, verified news groups. Astounding how entrenched some are in their emotional ideologies.......
coloradical Vote or Shut Up
12/16/16 9:10 pm
SNOPES is the biggest piece of crap that will find one little misspelled word or item of contention and say the story is false if it's about one of the Liberal Elites or the Progressive liberal agenda.
nacho
12/16/16 7:30 pm
Everyone reported the fake hijab story out of NY - instead of "if it bleeds it leads' it is now "if it offends our preferred protected class, it leads".
Why Dems lost and are classeless in losing.
Zod Above Pugetropolis
12/16/16 7:17 pm
As far as they go. A good start, but maybe not always quite enough. Independently verifiable sources and the same kind of evidence we all (I wish it was really *all* of us) rely on before accepting something as fact are what is needed, which are the things those fact checking sites usually (but maybe not always) demand before calling it as well.
DoctorWu at the great hill
12/16/16 7:05 pm
Aaaand of course republicans don't trust them. Why have fact checkers when you can just make $*** up? This country is going to see its decline and fall hastened by people like the PEOTUS and his sheep. And they don't care. They'll just swallow the lies because they can't handle the reality that conservativism is a cancer to freedom and progress.
phalnx Ohio
12/16/16 5:23 pm
More accurate than people posting randomly without any oversight. As long as they just label them as false without censoring them, I'm fine with that.
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