How fake is Snopes for using fake news source to defend biased organization?
Snopes gets ** two stars for quoting fake news source
Journalist Matt Taibi released Twitter Files #15 on January 27. He exposed Hamilton 68, “a digital ‘dashboard’ that claimed to track Russian influence and was the source of hundreds if not thousands of mainstream print and TV news stories in the Trump years.”
On October 3, 2017 former Twitter executive Yoel Roth sent an email on the subject “Hamilton 68 account list.” He stated, “It’s so weird and self-selecting, and they’re so unwilling to to be transparent and defend their selection that I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is.”
In another email Roth stated Hamilton 68 “falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots.”
After reviewing the evidence from Twitter Files #15 Taibi concluded, “It was a lie…Virtually every major American news organization cited these fake tales— even fact-checking sites like Snopes and Politifact.”
Left-wing Snopes, which often publishes fake fact-checks, defended Rob Reiner’s Committee to Investigate Russia in 2017. “Even as the organization aims to point the spotlight on the Kremlin's attempts to influence Americans' political and social behavior, predictably, Russia-linked bots and trolls retaliated with social media-driven attacks.”
Snopes continued, “One of the researchers behind Hamilton68, a real-time tool that tracks Russian influence operations on Twitter, told us that the reaction seems driven in part by the success of countermeasures like CIR…”
Film director Rob Reiner routinely posts far-left inflammatory rhetoric on Twitter, including anti-Christian bigotry. On January 4 he posted a tweet slandering and demonizing Christians who participate as equal citizens in American democracy.
Elon Musk tweeted, “Please correct your bs @Politifact & @snopes.