From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 8/16/2021 4:18 PM, The Real Bev wrote:   
   > On 08/15/2021 11:00 PM, Don Freeman wrote:   
   >> On 8/13/2021 7:10 PM, Jay Furr wrote:   
   >>> I know that alt.folklore.urban is essentially dead, but that said, is   
   >>> anyone out there?   
   >>>   
   >>> I got emails today from the staff at snopes.com informing me that   
   >>> snopes himself has gotten in major hot water for plagiarizing lots   
   >>> and lots of news stories and not giving credit, and that he's been   
   >>> suspended from all creative access to the site.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm surprised and disappointed. I was wondering if others had any   
   >>> more profound or interesting reactions.   
   >>>   
   >> There's a few of use lurking around, mostly just filtering out all the   
   >> bullshit postings but responding when one of the actual members speak   
   >> out.   
   >> I heard about the problem with snopes, and hope it doesn't destroy their   
   >> credibility, we need more combatants against disinformation, not less.   
   >   
   > It always bothered me that they were consistently and considerably less   
   > vigorous in their condemnation of liberal "missing-context" items than   
   > in conservative "pants-on-fire" items.   
   >   
      
   I agree.  It seems that everything has a political lean now.   
      
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