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I used to use slopes as my primary "fact authority", then post 2016 something changes. They now often answer with a very different context than they start out with. They do state that context they're actually answering, but sometimes it's very subtle that it's nearly unrelated. In these cases, if you just read the title and first paragraph and answer/summary, you will be misled. Being misled several times, seeing others misled many times, and to often see that they completely avoided responding to the actual topic, I don't trust them anymore. I'd rather just spend a few extra minutes looking at original sources than be tricked like that.

There's also seems to be a heavy bias in what they cover, which is fine (I believe biased/adversarial news is the best way to dig out truth), but I doesn't help my trust.



> Could you point to a snopes page that is demonstrably wrong or misleading?

I have the same question for you as the parent comment.




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