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by pandaman 195 days ago
Snopes excluded itself from archiving. I let you guess why.

My favorite was their check on masks in early 2020 - they said that masks do nothing to the airborne viruses and the government will never force you to wear one, people who are walking around with masks are dangerous lunatics who deprive medical workers of much needed PPE. Imagine if it was archived and available now?
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croon 195 days ago
Ok, can you link that one? Did someone write a blogpost/tweet/reddit post/take a screenshot of it at the time?

Have they rewritten/erased all their erroneous fact checks?

If so, is that bad or good?

Are all the fact checks currently on the website valid?

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pandaman 195 days ago
How can I link it if they are excluded from the time back machine and they pulled that "fact" since then? I have no clue if someone wrote blog post about it. I also don't read all checks currently on their site so cannot answer your question about them. I have only read the one about masks because someone at work sent a mail about masks available and another person responded with an angry critique, complete with a link to snopes ( I am sure that couple of weeks later the same guy had been driving around with a double mask and reported unmasked to the police)
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croon 195 days ago
If you read my original post, do you feel that anything in it was addressed?
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pandaman 195 days ago
I did read your original post and pointed out that there is no archive of Snopes "checks" because Snopes excluded itself from the service. Do you have any ideas why would they do that? As far as I know, it's opt-out, the Wayback Machine indexes everything by default so Snopes not being indexed required some action from them.
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muwtyhg 195 days ago
> Did someone write a blogpost/tweet/reddit post/take a screenshot of it at the time?

For a claim you are making, you seem to not be able to find a single piece of evidence. How did you ever find out there was an original article that they edited? Is this purely from personal experience?

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pandaman 194 days ago
The claim I am making is that Snopes excluded itself from the Wayback Machine during 2020, here is the evidence: https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/snopes.com Apparently they enabled indexing only from the end of 2021.
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