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by mod 3614 days ago
I hadn't seen the meme.

Based on the meme, I would say "mostly true." I would take issue with "volunteered," I would question what she laughed about (it's unclear, and so not very fact-check-able), and I would ignore the "advocate for rapists, not women & children" bit as it doesn't seem to be a fact I can check. I would just say as much in my presentation of the facts.

Perhaps Snopes would have been better served by not wording the "claim" headline in a way that was expressly true, before then saying it was false.

They could have taken the meme line for line and rated them individually, as well. That happens anyway in the supporting detail, and it's an easy way to organize the page.

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I listed every claim made in the meme and attempted to rate it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12219011

The "claim" has to be written in a way people will be able to find it when searching for the meme. I agree it isn't a good summary of what the meme claims.