ICE tried to deport a Native American

[SpankMe]

50. Snopes is getting soft, trying not to rile MAGA

They used to pose a question, in this case "Did ICE attempt to deport a Native American woman?", and then there'd be a highlighted "True", "False" or "Mixed" graphic as a sum-up before telling the story. Now, you have to read the whole story, and the conclusion is declared somewhere in the middle in one or two somewhat vague sentences that are hard to find among the banner advertisements.

Snopes uses language that really soft-shoes the essential facts of the events, saying things like certain facts "are consistent with what so-and-so has alleged" instead of just saying it's true. I get that they want to be cautious and not declare certain facts as absolutely true or false if any nuance is involved. But the wording in certain areas is so tentative as to not be really useful to a reader as a "true-vs-false" adjudication. Some Snopes stories are just he-said/she-said accounts that give the assholes of the story an easy out if questioned about it.

"Native American woman was marked for deportation by ICE". Status: True.