Liberal fact-checker Snopes faced criticism for incorrectly debunking claims about President Biden wearing a construction hard hat backward.
After backlash, Snopes issued a correction.
Snopes wrote , “The photo is genuine. And it does look, at first glance, like Biden was wearing that hard hat backwards. But after comparing it to other photos and videos of the same event, we were forced to reach the opposite conclusion: The hat on Biden’s head was facing forward, bill to the front, not backward.”
“Anyone want to razz that man for how he chooses to wear his hard hat?” asked the outlet.
“We received a ton of comments in a very short time challenging our assumption that wearing a hard hat ‘backwards’ means wearing it with the bill facing to the rear, and ‘forwards’ means wearing it bill to the front,” explained Snopes.
