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 was a beautiful sequence, actually. After the initial claim of "false" the usual suspect DNC paid shill accounts scrounged for flimsy reasons why it would be false and fired those guns like they were machine gunners in Great War trenches. Snopes corrected themselves afterwards but the shill responses insisting the false claim was true remained. One of the Krassenkikes insisted that this helmet was of a different make than the standard helmet used by 99% of all workers yet missed the forest for the trees entirely since the reason the hat was on backwards was due to the adjustment knob being on his forehead.
Now, the main issue is that everything online is fake and gay, especially that which presents itself as authentic. The reason Krassenstein did not even mention that knob is because he was told by the check signers that it, indeed, implied that the hat was backwards so to instead focus on everything but that. Does it mater that the issue was eventually resolved when enough hornets flew out of the kicked nest wielding their corrective stingers that Snopes had to correct? Absolutely not.
Snopes confirmed prissy urban elitists who have themselves never worn a hard hat in their lives.
What gets me about these kinds of really dumb photo ops is they could have just done five seconds of research and checked "What is the right way round to where a hard hat?" that's it. Which means that not one of them on the entire campaign staff thought to do this and just plonked the hat on and called it a day.
Reminds me of similar shit in the UK where they try to look like they're 'men of the people' by taking of their jackets and putting on a hard hat and they just look like they've taken off their suit jacket for a photo op and are half-arsing it completely.
It wasn't David Cameron himself but I think when he was doing some bullshit on healthcare a doctor came in and yelled at the journalists because he was supposedly rolling up his sleeves etc. correctly and being hygienic ( I think that's what it was ) and the group of people behind him had just waltzed in and pissed the doctor off which is hilarious.
This is something I inadvertently find fascinating about journalists and the political class because they all undergo stuff like public speaking training as well and so much of it is part of why these creepy NPCs all look very unnatural even in their body language. Yet they clearly believe this shit works even though everybody is making fun of them.
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.