That's the issue though. I'd bet most people who use Snopes don't take the time to actually read either the article Snopes is critiquing, or the Snopes article itself. They'll just scroll down to the verdict.
You've hit upon rule number 1 of propaganda or keeping the truth hidden! Make the truth just complicated enough and enough people will be put off that the tipping point is lost.
And the tide recedes.
Until next time at least...
For instance:
Global pedos buying kids is crazy but direct enough to believe.
Having a restaurant where they congregate ...is a stretch.
Paying someone to shoot up a pizza parlor, and promise a shortened sentence 'due to mental health', in order to show the public how dangerous 'Russian' / non-Swamp approved conspiracy theories are and get them to stop looking and kill the rise of #Pizzagate, etc trending.... totally pops most people's kite string belief.
Yeah and that's my problem with Snopes as well, they don't give an inch to claims with truth mixed in behind it and will explicitly state something as false which is misleading. They argue the semantics in their claim and rating and bury the rest of the information at the bottom of the article that people don't read whether there is truth to it or not. The rating doesn't match the information at hand.
It's essentially lying by structure, top of the article and headline will state the claim and rating which tell their verdict and bury the information at the bottom, which as you state, most people don't read. If the verdict clearly conflicts with the information given, you know they aren't being 100% truthful.
That's the issue though. I'd bet most people who use Snopes don't take the time to actually read either the article Snopes is critiquing, or the Snopes article itself. They'll just scroll down to the verdict.
You've hit upon rule number 1 of propaganda or keeping the truth hidden! Make the truth just complicated enough and enough people will be put off that the tipping point is lost.
And the tide recedes.
Until next time at least...
For instance:
Global pedos buying kids is crazy but direct enough to believe.
Having a restaurant where they congregate ...is a stretch.
Paying someone to shoot up a pizza parlor, and promise a shortened sentence 'due to mental health', in order to show the public how dangerous 'Russian' / non-Swamp approved conspiracy theories are and get them to stop looking and kill the rise of #Pizzagate, etc trending.... totally pops most people's kite string belief.
Yeah and that's my problem with Snopes as well, they don't give an inch to claims with truth mixed in behind it and will explicitly state something as false which is misleading. They argue the semantics in their claim and rating and bury the rest of the information at the bottom of the article that people don't read whether there is truth to it or not. The rating doesn't match the information at hand.
It's essentially lying by structure, top of the article and headline will state the claim and rating which tell their verdict and bury the information at the bottom, which as you state, most people don't read. If the verdict clearly conflicts with the information given, you know they aren't being 100% truthful.