Oh, they said Trump told the truth when he said "Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia."
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/24/donald-tru...
Why didn't anyone remind them of their bias before this got published?
Oh, they said Trump told the truth when he said "Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia."
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/24/donald-tru...
Why didn't anyone remind them of their bias before this got published?
Because there was no widespread vocal opposition to Snopes until Trump supporters started calling it "fake news" for debunking his claims about his inauguration turnout. Now they come out of the woodwork with every mention of the site to call it liberal propaganda and whatnot. No one else cares about the site that much - it's entertainment at best.
The widespread vocal opposition to Snopes is not simply from Trump calling it fake news, if anything his was a response just like the rest of us, a response to that organization plainly and blatantly lying to their readers repeatedly.
I'm sure there are some people who don't like Snopes for whatever other reasons but it's obvious that much of the modern resentment against the site is driven by a political agenda.
If Trump makes a huge number of false statements during his tenure as the president he's going to get the attention of fact-checking sites...
If Trump makes a huge number of false statements it should attract the attention of everyone. People that delegate their own critical thinking to an entity claiming to be unbiased and informed in doing it for them are going to be misled one way or another.