mo4ch:>Snopes roasted after posting 'study' claiming 28% of Republicans think Babylon Bee articles are real | Mo4ch News

“Fact-checking” site Snopes has been vindicated in its decision to fact-check satire by a study proving people (especially Republicans) often mistake satirical site Babylon Bee for real news. Or has it? Claim rated: mostly false.The “five most-believed satirical claims by the Babylon Bee” fool up to 28 percent of Republican readers, according to a study conducted by The Conversation (and credulously reposted by Snopes). The study’s conclusions appeared at first glance to validate Snopes’ much-mocked decision to fact-check obviously satirical stories by the Bee - clearly, Snopes’ detractors simply didn’t realize how many people were incapable of recognizing political satire!But the researchers didn’t present their subjects with Babylon Bee headlines and ask them if they thought they were looking at real news. Instead, they paraphrased the “false claims,” ironing out the satire in a way that - ironically - made them look more like real news, as the Bee’s own editor in chief pointed out.…