Snopes Has Begun "Fact"-Checking The Babylon Bee; Snopes's Media Bias / Fact Check Rating: "Least Biased"

Snopes went off the rails awhile back.

Now it routinely "fact checks" the Babylon Bee.

Incidentally, I've been meaning to scoff at this: Snopes gets a "Least Biased" rating from Media Bias / Fact Check...as does Wikipedia... Those two ratings alone reveal that MB/FC itself isn't exactly what you'd call least biased...

Bias happens. The goal is to minimize it. But it sure seems as if the same flavor of bias shows up an awful lot, even among the alleged watchdogs...

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Well...us, I guess, now that you ask...but still...

Anyway, Althouse makes a pretty good case in defense of Snopes...but I'm still going to grumble about it. Her strongest point is that it fact-checks The Onion in the same way, because people often wonder whether there's some real event/story being satirized. I'd respond that they need a different rating than FALSE, then, for such stories. They're all going to be false, obviously. They need something like "not based on any real event." But even that will run into problems, obviously. How strongly or loosely must such stories be based on such events to get which rating?

Eh, grumble, grumble, grumble...