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And at the end of the day, the underlying issue is the intent of sharing this info on social media in the first place. Susan Rosenberg's position as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents is intended to imply that BLM itself is a terrorist organization. No amount of fact checking is going to help in this scenario.

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This. Many other organizations are similar degrees of separation from individuals who could plausibly be labelled as terrorists or similar, but I doubt many of the people furious at labelling this claim as "mixed" would demand fact checkers also rate such articles as wholly true if the subject of the headline was an individual closely linked to, say, the Republican party, Fox News or the NRA. And yes, if you want to believe that BLM is a terrorist organisation then the Snopes article provides enough accurate detail about the bad stuff Rosenberg did for you not to change your mind, just as any self respecting fact checker has to acknowledge that however dubious certain insinuations might be, Oliver North et al exist.

I don't think "serves on the board of" counts as a degree of separation.

In the spirit of the discussion.... just as a screen tap counts as a 'zero-length' swipe, serving on the board of directors is a zero-degree separation. But it is still a degree of separation. /s

I could be wrong here, but “Thousand Currents” does not seem to be an alias for “BLM.”

"Serves on the board of an organisation that provides funding and administrative support to" sounds like a degree of separation. Unless you were talking about Oliver North...

Him too

>No amount of fact checking is going to help in this scenario.

Sure it will. You can flag it as false, and make sure nobody can see the posts.

>"to imply that BLM itself is a terrorist organization. No amount of fact checking is going to help in this scenario."

It seems to me the answer to this dilemma is to replace her on the board of directors. Scores of other CEO's and board members have been dismissed or asked to resign over far less. I'm no PR expert, but her background and connections are certainly eyebrow raising, despite all the attempts to hand-waive or dismiss them. Surely they have a large pool of talent from which to draw a replacement with a less problematic history?

> Susan Rosenberg's position as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents is intended to imply that BLM itself is a terrorist organization.

Or, much more reasonably, that it is an organization unconcerned with violence affecting innocent people.

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