<story><title>The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free</title><url>https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Another fun one I ask when someone brings up Snopes: Who snopes the snopes? In other words how do we know they are not being biased or thorough enough?&lt;p&gt;I am not saying everything there is wrong but I have ran into weird biased articles before.</text></item><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>As always, who judges whether something is true?</text></item><item><author>Dotnaught</author><text>The linked article concludes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Creators must be compensated well. But at the same time we have to try to keep things that are important and profound from getting locked away where few people will see them. The truth needs to be free and universal.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s also consider whether lies should be made more expensive. Free costs more than it&amp;#x27;s worth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beerandt</author><text>The bigger issues with Snopes are:&lt;p&gt;1) Complete lack of transparency. No versioning or history of how answers have changed. They even opt-out of archive.org history tracking. They usually only disclose one author, when oftentimes there are many.&lt;p&gt;2) They editorialize many &lt;i&gt;questions&lt;/i&gt;, changing them in such a way that they can give the answer they want to. This is done often by inserting modifiers like &amp;quot;always&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;never&amp;quot; or something similar.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free</title><url>https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Another fun one I ask when someone brings up Snopes: Who snopes the snopes? In other words how do we know they are not being biased or thorough enough?&lt;p&gt;I am not saying everything there is wrong but I have ran into weird biased articles before.</text></item><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>As always, who judges whether something is true?</text></item><item><author>Dotnaught</author><text>The linked article concludes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Creators must be compensated well. But at the same time we have to try to keep things that are important and profound from getting locked away where few people will see them. The truth needs to be free and universal.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s also consider whether lies should be made more expensive. Free costs more than it&amp;#x27;s worth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stjohnswarts</author><text>You can, follow their sources. Even if they&amp;#x27;re only 90-95 correct that is orders of magnitude better than what&amp;#x27;s on facebook and twitter where people go just because someone put up a picture with words on it.</text></comment>