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OcculusSniffed t1_iw8163y wrote

Reply to comment by BodhiRomeo in People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group. by asbruckman

You follow the sources that snopes uses and read up a little. Snopes, like wikipedia, is nothing without their sources. It's not a source of truth, it's a summary.

Also, if you read the article, you'll see that they aren't studying posts where snopes is wrong, they are studying verifiably incorrect stories.

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BodhiRomeo t1_iw8aw65 wrote

How is that different than what I said? Often their sources are biased opinion based and not actual impartial facts. They cherry pick to get the results they want. I have seen many snopes articles that were completely based in opinion but offered as fact.

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