Sentences with phrase «of snopes»

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.

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.

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.

Representatives for the Sacred Stone Camp, one of the primary encampments for Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, told Snopes that it is not the source of the post, though the group appreciates the gesture.

The company has taken a number of steps to try to stamp out fake news, including setting up a process whereby it takes fact - checking and verification efforts from third - party outlets like Politifact and Snopes, and shows users when a particular story is being questioned or has been debunked.

As the fact - checking site Snopes wrote in 2016, the illegitimate child story was a resurfacing of a 1992 story that had disappeared after it was reported that a DNA test failed to establish Clinton as Williams» father.

The bill contains no religious exemption, so it is true that some Christian books that address the issue of homosexuality could be banned from being sold, but as The Federalist notes, «It is virtually impossible that California will immediately attempt to ban the sale of the Bible itself» (though they disputed Snopes» claim that the idea is «demonstrably and clearly false.»)

Fact - checking site Snopes was quick to point out that this is yet another phony story about the deathbed conversion of an unbeliever.

In Faulkner's story «Barn Burning» the boy Sarty Snopes makes a difficult and costly decision to oppose the unjust acts of his father.

From there, a group of fact - checkers — from groups like Snopes, ABC News, the Poynter Institute — will determine if the story is, in - fact, untrue.

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.

The best summary of this legend is on Snopes; look for the phrase «survived his childhood unexploded.»

When I want to track down the authenticity of a Web site, I go to Snopes.

The authors encouraged the continued development of «alerting systems» for debunking misinformation such as Snopes.

DeVigal often consults AllSides, FactCheck.org and Snopes for a fuller picture of what's true or false, fact or opinion.

Snopes Have you received the e-mail warning about men outside malls spraying women with ether in the guise of a perfume sampling?

According to reports from Snopes, 52 out of 211 animals that came through the shelter that day were specifically brought by their guardians to be surrendered.

But no: «Snopes debunks the stuffing out of both theories and explains that Miyamoto picked «Kong» from «King Kong» (but not King Kong, legally speaking) and «Donkey» to «convey a sense of stubbornness.»»

[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.

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.

Snopes who advertises itself as a fact - checker of truth, rated Nicklin's starving bear video as «TRUE».

Of course the ring around the rosie verse is often claimed to be referring to the Bubonic Plague, though Snopes claims that's bogus and was made up much later....

Check out the legitimacy of any suspicious emails first with Snopes or Urban Legends.

It looks like the kind of story that would be quickly debunked by a search on Snopes, but as the message is being delivered by Jerry Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, I'm going to assume that it is legitimate.

Snopes keeps a running list of real and fake charities, though it is unclear how often that list is updated.

Even Snopes verifies the validity of an email that was circulated back in 2004.

Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, ABC News, and AP will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming «the arbiter of truth.»

Though there are fact - checking websites in the U.S. like Snopes, a threat of this magnitude requires more than just citizen - run or private organization - operated programs.