[Inserted Oct. 31 Kasprak's
Snopes article got to bedrock, finding that the passage derives from a caption in a March, 1912, Popular Mechanics article on the «Remarkable Weather of 1911.
Not exact matches
Some of the
articles in the fact - check section are from leading fact - checking sites like
Snopes and PolitFact, as well as recognizable news organizations such as the BBC.
The Babylon Bee was reported by the fact - checking website
Snopes earlier this month over an
article entitled «Did CNN Purchase an Industrial - Sized Washing Machine to Spin News?».
Appearing somewhat sympathetic to the Babylon Bee,
Snopes said: «Although it should have been obvious that the Babylon Bee piece was just a spoof of the ongoing political brouhaha over alleged news media «bias» and «fake news,» some readers missed that aspect of the
article and interpreted it literally.
A couple of links claiming the opposite do show up, but they're well down from skeptical
articles from the likes of
Snopes, CNN and the Obama campaign itself.
Facebook says it has modified the algorithm since then and has announced plans for
Snopes, Factcheck.org, ABC News and PolitiFact to help weed out obviously false
articles.
Interestingly enough, i think its worth mentioning that the owner of
snopes website that wrote and posted this
article sits on the board of directors for the animal poison control hotline, which charges $ 35 to give information to pet owners who call in when their pet has ingested something that might be toxic and didn't think it was worth mentioning and therefore didn't disclose this at the end of the
article which seems they should have done so because it apoears there would be some conflict there.
On his blog, Bloom pointed to a great Oct. 18 piece on the climate
article by Alex Kasprak for
Snopes, the invaluable (and overworked) truth detector for web content.
Nonetheless, Breitbart writer Delingpole claimed that 400 scientific papers published this year demonstrated that climate change is a «myth,» basing his
article on a post on the denialist blog No Tricks Zone.The fact - checking website
Snopes roundly debunked Delingpole's
article, giving it a «False» verdict after speaking with authors of some of the cited papers who said their work was grossly misinterpreted or misrepresented.
If an outside fact checker like
Snopes had debunked the original post, that could appear in Related
Articles too.