Snopes has just destroyed its own reputation. Their co-founder was plagiarizing dozens of articles from elsewhere, plus writing fake columns and article on the site under a pseudonym. I may no longer link to Snopes except to note that Snopes is now officially an Internet misinformation service.
Facebook censors posts referencing the garden tool known as a “hoe”.
Reporters are idiots. They fall for this story every year, year after year. And not one bothers to question the advocacy group’s press release. Not one.
Interesting – retouched photos, posted by advertisers and social media influencers must disclose the retouching. The law, though, does not define re-touching and it is unclear if it applies to exposure, contrast, saturation, sharpness adjustment.
Should groups portraying U.S. history be prohibited from displaying the “Confederate flag”?
The book “How Not to Diet” uses an appeal to authority and extensive cherry picking to formulate the author’s argument that we should all eat a plant-based diet.
Google’s head of diversity has been re-assigned after old blog posts showed him denigrating Jews and possibly making inappropriate comments about the LGBTQ+ community. Old blog posts and tweets have resulted in many losing their jobs.
An MD, PhD (epidemiology) finds her factual Facebook post mis-classified by Facebook’s auto-filters/auto-censors and thereby censored from view. She had linked to the original source of the information. Therefore, the message from FB is – do not cite your sources!
Another career is ended due to people learning about a reporter’s actual beliefs via the reporter’s own past tweets and social media posts.
A poster shared on social media falsely asserts that hundreds of electric vehicles are rotting away in Paris, leaking toxic materials into the ground. The story is provably false.