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RE: The Owner of Snopes.com - 'Truth' and 'Fact Checking' Website (Used by Facebook and Paid Off by Monsanto) Is In Court + Could Be Shut Down For Lying.
Oldie but a Goodie!
Great post, Snopes is bullshit and far too many people blindly accept their version of reality as fact. I occasionally listen to the Joe Rogan podcast and I cringe when they check Snopes to decide if something is fact or fraud.
Embezzlement and prostitutes... seems like Mr. Mikkelson is easily lead astray. Says a lot about the company... lol Go Fund Me!
Yes, I don't listen to Joe Rogan though choice - mainly because I know I could do a better job of getting to the truth and he also went on a dumb and heartless 'mission of truth' against vegans. Bad move.
@ura-soul @v4vapid They use Snopes? Didn't they use it just to mock the site or something?
Snopes has as much truth value as Wikipedia, lot's of people go there to see the truth while any random person can simply write there and from that point, that's the "truth". There was a Ted talk too about this, how big corps pay Wikipedia veterans to post/allow articles that can give them higher sales. The speaker also mentioned a story about a book writer. There was an article about an author and his book but there was a mistake in the wiki article. The author of the book wanted to fix it. He changed it but they changed it back every single time because he wasn't credible enough! :D
Edit: I found the video:
There are some good Joe Rogen Experience episodes but after a while, I started to dislike the new videos. These days if I happen to watch such videos, then I go to Steven Crowder's channel.
But if someone really wants to know what's going on and would like to find out the truth, a couple of different sources could come in handy. Looking around on some Reddit threads, talking to people who live in a country you want to know more about, independent journalists, etc. etc.
I experienced an identical result with editing wikipedia for the definition for 'world peace' of all things. They stated that world peace was impossible, so it should have been an uncontroversial edit to simply say that world peace is possible, provided the right decisions are made (I wrote in more detail than that). Within a few minutes the change was removed again. Another time I added a new page for a particular 'personality' that was accurate and well received by people who like him.. Wikipedia editors removed it and then in the discussion area made pretty clear that they weren't interested in the truth outside of what they decide to be allowed as 'truth'.
Based on these examples, I don't even know how anyone will become a "credible source" there... :D
Do you know the TV series called Mr. Robot?
(It's storyline: "Follows Elliot, a young programmer working as a cyber-security engineer by day, and a vigilante hacker by night.")
There was a short scene in it where they could get into a guarded building by putting a fake article about the main protagonist onto Wikipedia.(as a tech genius, a young millionaire/billionaire if I remember well) A friend of his was a credible source, so he could put there absolutely anything. He simply said his name, the people there Googled him, found the article "oh crap, this guy is the real deal" and let him in. Back in the day when I watched it I had no idea how Wikipedia works and I was like, no way! But it seems it is a totally possible scenario.
Note to self: Hire a few Wikipedia editors in the future.
This stuff is fascinating to think about. There's a great book on the topic,
The Art of Deception: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Deception-Controlling-Element-Security/dp/076454280X - written by a guy who used to be one of the most notorious hackers in the world who basically went clean and revealed all of his secrets to help people protect themselves.
He gives examples of calling a bank three different times, getting a few seemingly innocent pieces of info each time, then making a final call where he can easily manipulate the company into giving him valuable customer information.
Superb update. Thanks for posting.
It will be interesting to follow how Blockchains like Steem can replace websites like Snopes.
Steem ONwards good fellows!
he's a level 1 gatekeeper. There's still 2 more harder to detect levels than that.
What do you mean by this and who is the he you are speaking of, I am curious?
Yea, pathetic on so many levels.