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Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« on: March 19, 2017, 05:37:32 PM »
Facebook is using the AP and Snopes as its official fact checkers.

Snopes was a goto for me ten years ago. Not so much anymore.

http://twitchy.com/jacobb-38/2017/03/19/seriously-facebook-is-going-with-these-sources-as-fact-checkers-to-crack-down-on-fake-news/
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2017, 06:07:03 PM »
Snopes is OK on any subject that isn't political.
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2017, 06:11:02 PM »
Everything is political.
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2017, 12:50:09 AM »
from what my high teck millionaire pal tells me, an unwashed liberal couple that either live or used to live in
Berkeley - and they hate guns.
I bet snopes thinks an AR15 is an assault rifle.
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2017, 01:34:42 AM »
Quote from: gunsmith on March 22, 2017, 12:50:09 AM
I bet snopes thinks an AR15 is an assault rifle.


 =|  Ya know some of them are assault rifles, right?  =|
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2017, 03:34:14 AM »
Some of Snopes' articles drip with political bias.  Others are merely damp with it.
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2017, 10:56:25 AM »
Quote from: fistful on March 22, 2017, 01:34:42 AM

 =|  Ya know some of them are assault rifles, right?  =|

Nope, then they would be M16's or M4's....
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2017, 11:20:06 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on March 22, 2017, 10:56:25 AM
Nope, then they would be M16's or M4's....

Not necessarily. My FA NFA registered AR says Colt AR15 on the receiver. I'm not sure I would ever call it an Assault Rifle; but it is functionally identical to an M16.

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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2017, 12:37:25 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on March 22, 2017, 10:56:25 AM
Nope, then they would be M16's or M4's....

Those are just different types of AR-15 rifles.
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2017, 12:42:06 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on March 22, 2017, 10:56:25 AM
Nope, then they would be M16's or M4's....

Those are military designations of types of rifles.  The Army could have called them AR125-B2.
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Re: Facebook Fake News Fact Checkers
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2017, 01:32:22 PM »
Quote from: Fly320s on March 22, 2017, 12:42:06 PM
Those are military designations of types of rifles.  The Army could have called them AR125-B2.

This.
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