Move over, PolitiFact. You are no longer the most hilariously incompetent and obviously dishonest fact-checking outfit in town.
Snopes promoted a junk science article this weekend, titled “Study: Too Many People Think Satirical News Is Real,” thus resuming its bizarre campaign to brand the right-leaning satirical website the Babylon Bee as malicious “fake news.”
This is beyond mere feud. Snopes is a well-trafficked fact-checker, cited by politicos and journalists alike. Its crusade against the Babylon Bee has hurt the satirical website's traffic in the past, and it could hurt it in the future. Snopes' grudge is as destructive as it is absurd.
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