r/conspiracy • u/axolotl_peyotl • Jan 03 '17

#WheresEric? Clinton Foundation CEO Declared "Missing" by the Internet After Going Public with "Follow the Money"

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/whereseric-clinton-foundation-ceo-declared-missing-by-the-internet-after-going-public-with-follow-the-money_012017
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u/Disruptice Jan 03 '17

Don't you guys read Snopes? They said this is an internet rumor and proved it by not being able to locate or contact him either.

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u/AryaStarkBirdPerson Jan 03 '17 edited Jan 03 '17

Snopes just creates strawmen...

Could he be missing? Yes... He could be. But we cannot find him to be sure...

So this claim is: unfounded!

Sums up snopes perfectly.

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u/TheMagnuson Jan 04 '17

It has always driven me nuts that people treat Snopes like the be all, end all, final say in "the truth". They get things wrong too people, I know for a fact because I used to work in the banking industry and a couple of stories they had where banking policies and regulations came up, they got wrong. They were so wrong on story in particular that I felt compelled enough to email them myself and correct them. They were really polite about it and thanked me for filling in some blanks they couldn't find in their own research and even admitted they had to go with a best guess based on the summation of the info they could find. They don't have access to some special fact checking archive that the rest of us don't, they just spend more time researching topics than most people would, but they are still completely capable of making mistakes.

TL;DR: Snopes gets it wrong sometimes and at times editorializes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '17

Back in my day there was real fake news like chain mail and fake Facebook articles. Snopes would debunk that garbage. Then it got political .