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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Randomly tuned into NPR once recently. They were interviewing some people from Snopes, but I didn't hear the beginning of the segment so I didn't know who they were until it was repeated at the end. I honestly had been thinking they were representatives from some Marxist group.

[–]zyxzevn[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The original Snopes was just one person debunking internet folklore using wikipedia and other non-scientific references.
There was something strange with his wife and some hooker too.
Then he got money and it expanded to "fact checking'.

Usually they frame things by changing the story.
A bit like: "Did Hunter Biden get cocaine from the white house?" False.
While Hunter used his cocaine in the white house and left some package while stoned,
he got it from a friend, not from the white house.
That means any reference will be censored..

Another trick is to make a fake article, which needs to be retracted.
But then someone adds this article to wikipedia.
Then the fake article refers to the wikipedia-page, claiming that it has been confirmed.
So by controlling the media and wikipedia, the politicians turn a false claim into a "confirmed fact".
This even works in legal trials, because the judge and jury are not able to distinguish fact from wikipedia fiction.

This goes one step further with Big Pharma, which uses scientific journals to post fake science articles.
They have developed a system of publishing papers with career scientists that get paid for that.
It is called "ghost writing". And the journals get paid for publishing too. Usually via advertising. Sometimes the editors get well paid jobs in the industry.
So everyone is getting money to promote fake science.