Sometimes, when I’ve got nothing better to do, I go poking around on Snopes. And this time I found several articles of interest that I’m not sure the Kos community is aware of. Here they are, with links:
1) “No, Biden Did Not Say ‘White Republican Men’ Are ‘More Dangerous Than Isis’” Well, at least they got this Tucker Carlson made-up statement correctly labeled as “False.” However true it might actually be, Biden did not say it.
2) “Ad Falsely Claims AOC Owns One of the World’s Most Expensive Houses” Believe it or not, this is the “one of the world’s most expensive houses” that AOC “owned” (Well, she lived there with her mother) that was sold in 2016 for $355,000.
The Snopes article is unclear as to whether she actually owned the home, or merely lived there (rented) for a time. Snopes couldn’t actually confirm that this is the same house she supposedly owned. Still, touting this modest dwelling as “One of the World’s Most Expensive Houses” earned this ad a “Misleading” (that’s all??) label.
3) “Did Pennsylvania Lawmakers Vote to Fine Women Who Have a Miscarriage?” This appears to be an exaggeration from someone on our side, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Val Arkoosh. While the bill in question is still horrible (“Healthcare providers would, in many cases, have to consult with patients about the details of the fetal death, even if the patients would strongly prefer not to discuss fetal death certificates and similar considerations. Thus, the bill was likely to multiply the trauma suffered by patients who undergo an abortion or miscarriage in Pennsylvania.”), the bill does not actually require patients to file fetal death certificates themselves, or pay for fetal death certificates, or fine patients for having a miscarriage. (One does wonder how they plan to enforce it, however.) This statement gets a “Mostly False” rating from Snopes.
There’s other interesting stuff on Snopes, like “Supreme Court Limits Prosecutors’ Use of Anti-Hacking Law” (which is not actually a “fact-check” but an article of interest that relates to a police officer who used a work-place database for a non-work purpose) but the three above articles are the ones that caught my attention.