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Duckyhs 10 points ago +14 / -4

I hate to defend Snopes but Infowars is being purposefully misleading or using bad verbiage to demonstrate their points in their headline. OP is being disingenuous with this information.

Infowars' bad headline: https://archive.is/cG0TJ#selection-1067.0-1067.79

Snopes is debunking the "deliberate" claim by infowars while also using false implicature in the "claim" and using the "rating as false" to mislead the reader to think that "nearly 200 fires weren't started by man" (they were, just not all deliberate). Should have been labeled mixed to be more accurate.

If people don't read the actual origin they will be mislead on what the overall information means. Both are in the wrong on their assessments or verbiage claims.

Keep it basic. Definition of Deliberate: "done consciously and intentionally."

Snopes isn't wrong on the "deliberate" account but are wrong on the "false" claim and infowars is also wrong for using the term deliberate, should have kept it to "Nearly 200 People Arrested Across Australia For Starting Bushfires" would have been more accurate due to all of the information and snopes could have explained this.

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