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Snopes, Google, Facebook, Continue Promoting ‘Stolen Valor’ by Nathan Phillips

Snopes is refusing to set the record straight about Nathan Phillips, the Native American at the center of the Covington High School student controversy.


Phillips, who turned out to be the Maytag Man instead of a “Recon Ranger,” has stolen valor for years – falsely claiming in interviews to have been deployed to Vietnam – before carefully changing his wording to clarify that he was a “Vietnam-times” veteran. 

Phillips’ own family also promoted the lie:

After the Washington Post issued a major correction noting that Phillips was never deployed to Vietnam, he was outed as a refrigerator technician who was never deployed overseas, and went AWOL several times by former Navy SEAL Don Shipley, who obtained Phillips’ records.


Snopes, however, continues to call Phillips’ false claims to be “unproven” despite ample evidence that he lied

As the Daily Caller‘s Peter Hasson notes, “Snopes’s fact-check incorrectly labeled it “unproven” that Phillips had falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. Snopes declined to change its misleading ruling despite definitive video evidence of Phillips doing exactly that.”


What’s more, the Caller notes that Google has been promoting the misleading “fact check” as the leading search result about Phillips’ Vietnam claims


Facebook too:


An emailed statement from Snopes said that Phillips didn’t explicitly say in recent interviews that he was a Vietnam veteran and used more nuanced language like “Vietnam-times veteran.”

In an update, Snopes questioned whether Phillips “deliberately” portrayed himself as a Vietnam veteran. 


But Snopes wasn’t fact-checking whether Phillips “deliberately misrepresented” his record. Snopes was fact-checking the question: “Did Nathan Phillips Falsely Claim He Was A Vietnam Veteran?” It’s a fact that Phillips falsely claimed he was a Vietnam veteran. –Daily Caller

Source: ZeroHedge