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19. Snopes is sort of notorious for being a relatively "bias-free" fact-checking site. However, I notice that in certain conservative circles it is written off as funded by liberals, most notably the liberal billionaire George Soros. Some examples of the claim: SNOPES NO MORE. Snopes funded by Soros.. and people are still stupid enough to ...
Note that this was about a very small subset of Facebook's "fact checks", specifically those that assert that the claim is deceptive or missing important context and where that label was accompanied by an explanation of the factual basis for that assertion, a factual basis that is indisputably true, for example, "factcheckers say this information is missing context and could mislead people ...
5. The number of Ancient Greek sources is also very limited. It’s not in Plato, Xenophon, or Diogenes Laertius. This exhausts all the contemporary sources and the biggest secondary historical source of information about Socrates. Source: I’ve read them. – Shamshiel. Aug 5, 2022 at 0:38.
In a delicious irony, Holst's propagation of this false "fact" has spurred it into becoming one of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the Internet. From Snopes.com. However, the Snopes article itself has been called into doubt, with claims that Snopes made up the reference.
Chicago Herald. 15 July 1915. The relevant quote from the book is: Vaudeville houses still showed motion pictures in 1915, and many were promoting the Chaplin vogue by sponsoring amateur Charlie look-alike contests. Among the early winners was Bob Hope, who took first prize in a Chaplin contest in Cleveland.
This story has an inkling of truth, but the specific claim raised in the title of the question is false. The one link in the question that is correct (or at least was correct in 2015) is the link to the Wikipedia page, which does not mention the Burj Khalifa.
Author of the quotation. The author of the quote appears to be someone named Joe Spenner who authored a pamphlet in which there is an introduction by Spenner (note the absence of quote marks - he isn't quoting) containing the phrase in question, below this a horizontal dividing line, below the line are a series of quotations (in quote marks) attributed to George Washington.
Inventor of ADHD's Deathbed Confession: "ADHD is a fictitious disease". US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, born in 1922 as the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, who was the "scientific father of ADHD" said at the age of 87 in his last interview: "ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease." I tried to search but couldn't find ...
Ismail Haniyeh. $4 m illion. $3-4 billion. Khaled Mashal. $2.6 billion*. $5 billion. * As noted in the other answer, Mashal was the treasurer of Hamas in 2014, and $2.6 billion was reported as the total assets of Hamas itself at that time, which makes this figure in particular seem dubious as Mashal's personal wealth.
Snopes claims these quotes were made variously in 1990, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Looking at just one claim, about Lawrence Lockman, Maine's Morning Sentinel reported. Maine lawmaker says he regrets comments on rape, gays. Posted February 27, 2014. Republican Lawrence Lockman is under fire after a liberal activist’s blog post details his comments ...