Snopes Fact-Check Calls True Biden Story ‘False’ Despite Photos THEY Included in Post — Then Reverses It
A photo that shows President Joe Biden wearing a hard hat backwards was labeled "false" by Snopes before they changed their minds after pushback.
And just like that Snopes proves their fact checking is completely disingenuous.
Archive this forever.
Anyone who would change their mind on Snopes already did years ago. Anyone who was pro-Snopes has already excused this as an accident or some other excuse.
They'll use this as evidence of legitimacy. "See, when informed of the error, the fact-check was updated. Snopes only reports unbiased facts. The system is working as intended!"
snopes rates this mostly true
What's illuminating about this one among the other false fact checks is it clearly shows their thought process.
A 4-year old looking at this picture fucking knows the hat is on backwards, but their fact check was rationalization like 'well you wouldn't put stickers on the back of your hardhat duh^6'. This level of delusion is only possible if you started with it.
Snopes starts a fact-check with the assumption that conservatives are always wrong about everything.
They're still trying to spin it that the owner rigged it oddly and that it's not dementia Joe's fault.
https://imgchest.com/p/qe4gmbmq4j2
Fact checking is itself garbage gatekeeping.
NOBODY can police what is true, without making a man-in-the-middle attack: BY DEFINITION. So the hearer must decide for himself, after getting as close to the evidence as possible. Himself.
∴ Snopes is a garbage company.
Always was.
They'll just say it's not backwards, he just wore it in reverse or some word play bullshit like they've done before.
Their argument was since there was a brim, that it was really the front.
I figured it'd be something to weasel out of being wrong.
Someone oughta get OSHA to weigh in on it.
Or point to those hard hat signs that say you have to wear one, with a hard hat where the front faces forward on the little disembodied head wearing it.
It's like a bike helmet. You have the best chance to survive an incident if you're wearing it right.
The emperor's hat is correct, everyone else's hat is backwards.
This is at least the second time Snopes jumped to Biden's defense only to backtrack, I remember the checking the watch at the airport thing.