![]() ![]() They clearly don't care."Īnother Snopes content editor, Kim LaCapria, left the fact-checking site in part due to frustrations with the Facebook partnership. They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck. "They've essentially used us for crisis PR. The Guardian later reported that the partnership ended due to pressure from the Snopes editorial team.īrooke Binkowski, former managing editor of Snopes said, Snopes split from Facebook so it could "determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication, and staff."įurthermore, David Mikkelson, and Snopes head of operations, Vinny Green, said that Snopes "have not ruled out working with Facebook or any other platforms in the future." Snopes Ended the Facebook Partnership At the same time, the Associated Press also announced it would no longer fact check on the Facebook site, either. However, in early 2019, Snopes announced it would no longer work with Facebook. In 2017, Snopes partnered with Facebook to fact check for the social network, receiving $100,000 for their fact-checking work in the first year, and $406,000 in the second year. What About Snopes Partnership with Facebook?Īs one of the most popular fact-checking websites, Snopes is perfectly positioned to debunk the rampant spread of fake news throughout Facebook. Whereas, Democrat and Democrat-leaning independents are more likely to trust a fact-checking site. Several studies indicate that Republican supporters and Republican-leaning independents maintain a strong distrust of any fact-checking sites, including Snopes. The bias you perceive a fact-checking to have, be that liberal or conservative depends on your political stance. ![]() Fact-Checking Site Perception Depends on Political Stance ![]() Looking at the broader picture, then, gives a better definition. " the vast majority of them are debunking false claims made about him, not affirming negative things said about him or disproving positive things said about him." However, Mikkelson refutes this image of liberal bias, especially against President Trump, stating that, Typing "Trump" into the Snopes search bar is equally revealing 100 pages, each with ten links containing the keyword. Whatever your take on President Trump, one undeniable fact is that he is a constant stream of information-rightly or wrongly.Īs Snopes fact checks many of President Trump's Tweets and other assertions, of which there is a considerable volume, it is only understandable that there is a strong perception that Snopes leans liberal in its attempts to clarify his messages. Snopes' Trump ConundrumĪnother reason for Snopes' perceived liberal bias is that one name appears on the website more than most: Trump. Slowing these songs down can be a fun exercise in trying to figure out how James composes a song, or otherwise just a new way to appreciate his music.Since then, the story has been discredited multiple times. Instead of 33 minutes, you actually get 45, you understand? And there you have it, an album of standard length.” (Source)Īphex Twin records are incredibly complex, multi-layered, rule-breaking and mind-shattering and slowing them down not only changes the feel of the song, it actually allows your brain to more easily pick out and process each layer. That’s also the real reason why my album ended up so short. If they go for too long, then they don’t fit onto the vinyl-and then you can’t play them slower. That’s also why my pieces are so short: you can only press them onto maxi singles if they are short at 45 rpm. “Many of my tracks are better if you play them at 33 rpm. James explained in an interview that a lot of his music is meant to be played slower than it appears on his records. And to make things even weirder, she kind of sounds just like Jay-Z.īack in ’96, Richard D. It seems ridiculous at first but some of these tunes are actually really intricately crafted pop/electronic songs, and slowing them down helps to distinguish all the layers within them. Seriously, don’t be so quick to skip this one. At any moment I could drop into a different level of time.” (Source) So I could slip into half-time I could slip into a third of a time. “All the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Édith Piaf track. Playing off the concept of time-dilation used in the film, Zimmer explained how he constructed the score in an interview with The New York Times: ![]()
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