U.S.—Snopes has rolled out a helpful new feature: an opinion checker.
Alongside the site's helpful fact checks of satirical articles and debunking of urban legends, there will now be a section of the site dedicated to checking out opinions and letting you know which ones are acceptable to hold.
"Just checking facts wasn't enough anymore---now, people are looking to Snopes to be the moral arbiter of which opinions are OK and which ones are not," said a spokesperson for the website. "This has been a long time coming. We've pretty much been doing this all along, but disguising it as a 'fact check.' So now we can just be much more upfront with people about what our intentions are."
As soon as the feature went live, Snopes had opinion-checked dozens of opinions, including the following:
- President Trump isn't as bad as Hitler
- White men aren't all bad
- Abortion is wrong
- Pineapple does not belong on pizza
- Hillary Clinton is not a good person
- The Last Jedi is trash
- It's OK to laugh at a joke on the internet
All of these earned a "Wrong" opinion rating. Any post expressing these opinions on social media will automatically be tagged with a "Wrong" rating from Snopes.
