{"id":388265,"date":"2018-12-08T01:58:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T00:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-snopes-fact-checker-for-facebook-and-google-botches-fact-check\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T01:58:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T00:58:28","slug":"prison-planet-com-snopes-fact-checker-for-facebook-and-google-botches-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-snopes-fact-checker-for-facebook-and-google-botches-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Snopes, Fact-Checker For Facebook And Google, Botches Fact Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/06\/snopes-facebook-google-fact-check\/\"><strong>Daily Caller<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 7, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snopes, a left-leaning fact-checking website given preferential treatment by Facebook and Google, botched its fact-check of a viral meme that was\u00a0mocked within political circles for spreading false information.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The meme showed a picture of President Donald Trump with Republican lawmakers and members of his administration following the House\u2019s vote to repeal Obamacare in 2017. Thirty-three people in the photo Snopes used had a red X over their face, though it cropped out a 34th person included in others.<\/p>\n<p>The caption accurately claimed the photo was taken at the White House following the House\u2019s Obamacare vote, then falsely claimed that \u201cEveryone with an X has since been voted out of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6496762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6496762\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/false-tweet-e1544078898778.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot\/Twitter\" width=\"640\" height=\"688\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A liberal Twitter user shares the false meme, which earned a favorable fact check from Snopes Screenshot\/Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Political reporters mocked the meme\u2019s inaccuracies after Nicholas Kitchel, a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer, shared it in a Nov. 17 tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/06\/snopes-facebook-google-fact-check\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, December 7, 2018  at  7:42 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/snopes-fact-checker-for-facebook-and-google-botches-fact-check.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/snopes-fact-checker-for-facebook-and-google-botches-fact-check.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily CallerDecember 7, 2018 Snopes, a left-leaning fact-checking website given preferential treatment by Facebook and Google, botched its fact-check of a viral meme that was\u00a0mocked within political circles for spreading false information. The meme showed a picture of President Donald Trump with Republican lawmakers and members of his administration following the House\u2019s vote to repeal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}