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Dirt on Snopes: ‘Facebook ‘fact checker’ who will arbitrate ‘fake news’ accused of defrauding website to pay for prostitutes…’

December 27, 2016 By Kathy Shaidle

and its staff includes an escort-porn star and ‘Vice Vixen domme’

Soooooo awesome!

I wrote about Snopes.com a while back, but here’s more:

It was with incredible surprise therefore that I received David’s one-sentence response which read in its entirety “I’d be happy to speak with you, but I can only address some aspects in general because I’m precluded by the terms of a binding settlement agreement from discussing details of my divorce.”

This absolutely astounded me. Here was the one of the world’s most respected fact checking organizations, soon to be an ultimate arbitrator of “truth” on Facebook, saying that it cannot respond to a fact checking request because of a secrecy agreement.

In short, when someone attempted to fact check the fact checker, the response was the equivalent of “its [sic] secret.”

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