NYT Looks at Snopes' 2 Years Fact-Checking the Elections
On fact-checking in a world where fact-checkers are fake news targets.
If Snopes used to be the site you visited to prove that ancient alien cell phones weren’t real, the election cast the hoax-busting site into a role as fact-checker of political tall tales, in addition to those of the extraterrestrial and urban legend variety.
Snopes’ investigations into political claims were thorough enough for the site to be named as a partner in helping Facebook weed out fake news on its site.
And with that image as reliable fact-checker of political claims forged during a campaign in which no lie seemed too preposterous to offer for public consumption, it has been at times the target of those who wish to cast Snopes itself as part of some lying liberal cabal.
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