Breaking News: Researchers removed the brains from 32 dead pigs and, hours later, restored some cellular activity. An ethicist called the brains “partly alive." https://t.co/qJhWQpJxtZ
I love that their justification for fact-checking a satire website is that “it is inevitable in today’s misinformation age that some people will see, believe, and keep scrolling.” True? In this case, probably not, and even if it was, just clicking through to the, you know, original Bee article itself would be a perfectly adequate… um… fact check.
I love that their justification for fact-checking a satire website is that “it is inevitable in today’s misinformation age that some people will see, believe, and keep scrolling.” True? In this case, probably not, and even if it was, just clicking through to the, you know, original Bee article itself would be a perfectly adequate… um… fact check.
The Onion shows up on Snopes quite regularly, so perhaps we should see this as a sign of arrival for the Bee.