As LaCapria states, Facebook wanted the 'appearance of trying to prevent damage without actually doing anything. They clearly don't care.'Īnother Snopes content editor, Kim LaCapria, left the fact-checking site in part due to frustrations with the Facebook partnership. They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck. 'They've essentially used us for crisis PR. The Guardian later reported that the partnership ended due to pressure from the Snopes editorial team.īrooke Binkowski, former managing editor of Snopes said, Snopes split from Facebook so it could 'determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication, and staff.'įurthermore, David Mikkelson, and Snopes head of operations, Vinny Green, said that Snopes 'have not ruled out working with Facebook or any other platforms in the future.' Snopes Ended the Facebook Partnership At the same time, the Associated Press also announced it would no longer fact check on the Facebook site, either. However, in early 2019, Snopes announced it would no longer work with Facebook. However, Mikkelson refutes this image of liberal bias, especially against President Trump, stating that,

Typing 'Trump' into the Snopes search bar is equally revealing 100 pages, each with ten links containing the keyword.

Whatever your take on President Trump, one undeniable fact is that he is a constant stream of information-rightly or wrongly.Īs Snopes fact checks many of President Trump's Tweets and other assertions, of which there is a considerable volume, it is only understandable that there is a strong perception that Snopes leans liberal in its attempts to clarify his messages. Snopes' Trump ConundrumĪnother reason for Snopes' perceived liberal bias is that one name appears on the website more than most: Trump. Since then, the story has been discredited multiple times. Mikkelson himself said that the person in the image 'Has dark, dark hair, and there the resemblance to the photograph ends.'

Environmental organizations and researchers say the wildfires blazing in the Brazilian rainforest were set by cattle ranchers and loggers. The story was also accompanied by a picture allegedly showing Snopes founder and CEO, David Mikkelson, alongside George Soros. There was a similar call for a workers strike on Black Friday last year, after Amazons sales rose sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Amazon is burning and humans are likely to blame.

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