I am generally careful about information that I share, but I reshared something a few weeks back that prompted a (very grateful) "Snopes.com" alert message from a friend. I am ready to adopt a "no share policy with anything I find in Facebool...lol...but an even deeper problem has evolved, because in this ever-evolving technological world, I don't know if credible information sources exist, at all...but, even more problematic thsn this is, how did Snopes.com become the "go-to" place for the fact-checking truth?
I did some snooping on Snopes, and what I found (if I can trust the source that dropped the low-down snoops on Snopes) is that it was started by a husband and wife who donned the Fact-Checking super cape all on their own. But what I found most interesting is that this husband used to be a great big online spoofer himself...lol...yet, now he and his wife are the go-to source for all truth and Facebook facts?
Snopes isn't the only place for facts to be checked, as my conservative friends who believe Snopes to be left-wing biased have educated me on the real fact-checking source of truth. I can never remember the name of these other sites, so I guess that makes me a left-winging truth seeker...lol.
After researching Snopes.com, I honestly don't care how many awards they've won for their myth busting sleuth and truth work...it's a problem for me that our culture has turned this online spoofing husband and his wife into the end-all and be-all of fact-checking gurus!
Which leads me back to the fundamental problem of not knowing how to trust the information that invisibly bombards my mind every single day....both inside and outside of Facebook!
I don't have any good solutions at this point, just the awareness of how fragile the credibility of truth and information is these days.
