Snopes, a left-leaning fact-checking website given preferential treatment by both Facebook and Google, flubbed its fact-check of American Indian activist Nathan Phillips’ false claim of being a Vietnam veteran.
Phillips shot to national attention after a viral confrontation between him and a group of high school boys from Covington Catholic high school. Phillips, with the help of credulous national media outlets, said the boys mobbed and racially harassed him as he tried to leave the Indigenous People’s March. Video evidence debunked Phillips’s account.
In addition to botching the details of the confrontation, media outlets also inaccurately reported that Phillips is a Vietnam veteran.
Phillips described himself in interviews as a “Vietnam-times veteran” and groups affiliated with him told The New York Times that he fought in Vietnam. Phillips explicitly claimed in a 2018 Facebook video that he was a Vietnam veteran who served “in theater.”
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Solution to reading fact check. What ever they say is "true" you know it is not.
ReplyDeleteWonder if Phillips served with Blumenthal?
ReplyDeleteHe was "in theater" during the Viet Nam war, the base theater every Saturday night.
ReplyDeleteSnopes fact checkers are the ones who need to be checked due to their buddy Soro's. Now who do you think they are going to side with??? Get real.
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