# Snopes is debasing itself by "fact-checking" satire websites that are obviously satire. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940 "2019-07-31T18:14:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940/21 "2019-08-01T19:18:55Z")
How can you not love Babylon Bee? It’s the boiled chicken breast of satire. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940/22 "2019-08-02T13:02:33Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What? It’s easy. Any news that I don’t agree with or I disapprove of is “fake news” And anyone who disagrees with me is at best a rube, but more likely a knuckle-dragging mouth-breather who refuses my correction. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940/23 "2019-08-02T14:14:17Z")
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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940/24 "2019-08-02T14:24:26Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > They kind of lost me when they started making their own fake stories, and presenting them as real. Or, “real”. The pages still looked as real as actual debunking pages. WTF, Chucks? As if there isn’t enough confusion already (hence this thread) did they really need to start making their own? Dude, they’ve been doing this almost since the very beginning. At least since the mid-1990s. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940/25 "2019-08-02T16:55:30Z")
The Lost Legends have been part of the site from the beginning. Each one contains a link at the end to tell you it is untrue, and is in a section that specifically calls them untrue, and contains multiple jokes in the article itself. And they are debunking stories that are spread as true. Many of them start out as satire. I remember running into Weekly World News a lot. **Velocity** , would you please stop and think for second before you repeat stuff you read on right wing websites? You do this a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940/26 "2019-08-02T20:19:19Z")
Couple more things on the Babylon Bee: From The Stranger, many people don’t get that it’s satire, even when it specifically says so on the site. > **[Is It Possible to Be Funny and Also a Christian? Snopes Investigates](https://www.thestranger.com/media/2019/08/02/40942744/is-it-possible-to-be-funny-and-also-a-christian-snopes-investigates)** > > The Babylon Bee has a Snopes problem. The Bee, which was founded by Christian comic Adam Ford, is sort of like The Onion for people who love Jesus. It occasionally pillories Trump (a recent headline reads, “Trump Proves He's Not A Racist By Showing... An example from a man who now lost his relationship with his father over a Bee article: [https://twitter.com/JoshRaby/status/1156612113777025024](https://twitter.com/JoshRaby/status/1156612113777025024) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940/27 "2019-08-02T20:30:32Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > An example from a man who now lost his relationship with his father over a Bee article: > [https://twitter.com/JoshRaby/status/1156612113777025024](https://twitter.com/JoshRaby/status/1156612113777025024) [A man who has made up shit on Twitter before.](https://www.popsugar.com/tech/Milkshake-Twitter-Story-40909351) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940/28 "2019-08-02T20:45:43Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The Lost Legends have been part of the site from the beginning. Each one contains a link at the end to tell you it is untrue, and is in a section that specifically calls them untrue, and contains multiple jokes in the article itself. It really doesn’t matter if they’ve been doing it from the beginning or not. A site that is about factual debunking should not add to the noise level with their own falsehoods. The fact that some people have cited Lost Legends as fact should convince anyone that it was a stupid idea. All the right wing idiots remember was that Snopes was wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-is-debasing-itself-by-fact-checking-satire-websites-that-are-obviously-satire/837940.md?page=1)