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Home Front: Culture Wars
Snopes Fact Checker is Exposed as a Fraud
2016-11-18
[DailyHeadlines.net] Snopes started out fact checking news of the weird and eventually tried to remake itself as a political fact checking site. But now it has been exposed as a fraud. The main fact checker is Kim Lacapria, who was formerly with Inquisitr, a site known for publishing fake quotes and hoaxes. Lacapria was a huge disaster as a writer with many of her stories getting just 10 to 20 shares. She was a vitriolic far left wing blogger. While at Inquisitr she described herself as an openly left leaning liberal.

In her articles, she described Bill Clinton as one of the greatest presidents of all time and called Tea Party members as Teahadists.

From The Daily Caller:

She once wrote: "Like many GOP ideas about the poor, the panic about using food stamps for alcohol, pornography or guns seems to have been cut from whole cloth‐or more likely, the ideas many have about the fantasy of poverty." (A simple fact-check would show that food stamp fraud does occur and costs taxpayers tens of millions.)

Lacapria even accused the Bush administration of being "at least guilty of criminal negligience" in the September 11 attacks. (The future "fact-checker" offered no evidence to support her accusation.)

Her columns apparently failed to impress her readership, oftentimes failing to get more than 10-20 shares.
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#3  Them fact-checking People's Cube was crazy funny.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-11-18 15:07  

#2  Snopes blew all credibility when they went political. They are still good for checking on non-political stuff. They should have learned from wikipedia which is great on non-political stuff but isn't really trusted any longer because their political editors are nuts.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-11-18 14:27  

#1  Snopes' left wing proclivities have been obvious for years. Haven't visited the site in a long, long time.
Posted by: Iblis   2016-11-18 14:26  

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