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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | {{w|Snopes}} is a popular website for checking the validity of {{w|Urban legend|urban legends}}. | + | {{w|Snopes}} is a popular website for checking the validity of {{w|Urban legend|urban legends}}. Snopes proves or disproves facts, but another urban legend is known that suggests Snopes runs a spam operations to create sources for their own benefit. |
− | + | The title text suggests that {{w|MythBusters}}, another group which debunks myths, also participate in the practice of spreading misinformation for the opportunity to test it. | |
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− | The title text suggests that {{w|MythBusters}}, another group | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Cueball: Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff. | :Cueball: Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff. | ||
:Friend: Oops; yeah. | :Friend: Oops; yeah. | ||
:Cueball: Man, Snopes is really great--independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation. | :Cueball: Man, Snopes is really great--independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation. | ||
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:Friend: Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they'll always have business. | :Friend: Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they'll always have business. | ||
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:Cueball: That's absurd. Plus, it's definitely not true--it was debunked by... | :Cueball: That's absurd. Plus, it's definitely not true--it was debunked by... | ||
:Friend: Yes? | :Friend: Yes? | ||
:Cueball: ...Oh my God. | :Cueball: ...Oh my God. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
+ | [[Category:Internet]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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