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It's not about that. I get so damn tired of hearing "Fake News" because it's nearly always someone in denial of the facts, pushing some fringe theory. Regardless of bias, most "left bias" news agencies, and the mainstream right, mostly report facs as they know them, now they may present it in different ways but it is essentially still factual. When you have a few true fact check sites like Snopes that work so hard to keep the news sites honest, and do it so well, I think it's just lame to start calling out bias especially since evidence of such is very scant.
Sorry if I accused you of being right winger, but as far as basic denial of factual reporting and subscribing to wingnut theories, both the far right and far left engage, but it seems in present day America, the popularity of discrediting factual sources and accepting questionable sites with clear bias and factual reporting issues has become much more mainsream on the right than it ever has for the left (in America). If you really think Snopes slants left, I contend perhaps you are, further right than you think, or listening to people from the fringe right and out to invesigate more or have reasons for saying such before just repeating it cuz "somebody said".
