Saturday, April 30, 2016

Blog Assignment 7

I found on Snopes.com various things pertaining to the world of politics. From rumors that Obama was from Kenya to conspiracies that Dubya was behind 9/11 Snopes has taken on all the mythos. Now as for bias I didn't really seem to see a lot of bias, but I did search for "snopes.com bias" and it came up with a page about Snopes being accused by everyone of being a shill for one side of the political spectrum or the other. Ultimately I think Snopes has a reality bias, where if someone is stretching the truth, they will get called on it. And sometimes stretching the truth might be good, where you need to sell an unpopular but necessary policy that the majority of people don't understand is good and needed. All in all, I think Snopes can be said as non-partisan.

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