{"id":2244193,"date":"2024-05-14T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snopes-changes-fact-check-rating-on-contents-of-ashley-bidens-diary-from-unproven-to-true\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:10:33","slug":"snopes-changes-fact-check-rating-on-contents-of-ashley-bidens-diary-from-unproven-to-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snopes-changes-fact-check-rating-on-contents-of-ashley-bidens-diary-from-unproven-to-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Snopes Upgrades Fact-Check Rating for Ashley Biden&#8217;s Diary to &#8216;True"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsnopes-changes-fact-check-rating-on-contents-of-ashley-bidens-diary-from-unproven-to-true%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2244193&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Fact-checking site Snopes updated its assessment\u200d of Ashley Biden&#8217;s \u200bstolen diary,\u200c confirming its contents. \u200cOriginally labeled &#8220;Unproven,&#8221; the rating was later changed \u2064to &#8220;True&#8221; in a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-gear-up-to-pass-covid-relief-bill-on-wednesday\/\" title=\"House Democrats gear up to pass COVID relief bill on Wednesday\">revised version<\/a>. This change followed an April \u2064article\u200d exploring claims about her\u2064 father&#8217;s actions. Ashley Biden expressed anguish over her personal\u2063 journal\u200c being\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-are-really-bad-at-estimating-americas-demographics-largely-thanks-to-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"People Are Really Bad at Estimating America\u2019s Demographics, Largely Thanks to Mainstream Media\">viewed online<\/a>.\u2062 Your text is concise and effectively summarizes the\u2062 key points about\u2062 Snopes updating the assessment of Ashley Biden&#8217;s diary contents. It highlights the\u2063 change \u200cfrom &#8220;Unproven&#8221;\u2063 to &#8220;True,&#8221; the connection to claims about her father&#8217;s actions, and \u2062Ashley Biden&#8217;s\u200c distress over the \u2062diary being viewed online. Great job!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Fact-checking website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/snopes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snopes<\/a> has updated its assessment of the contents of a stolen diary that belonged to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s daughter, Ashley Biden, to say they have been verified.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/400-years-later-i-made-new-discoveries-about-the-first-thanksgiving\/\" title=\"400 Years Later, I Made New Discoveries About The First Thanksgiving\">article published<\/a> in early April explored the claim that Ashley Biden\u2019s diary \u201cdescribes actions taken toward her by her father when she was a child as \u2018probably not appropriate.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the article <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240405205118\/https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/ashley-biden-diary-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initially said<\/a> the claim had been \u201cUnproven,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/ashley-biden-diary-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revised version<\/a> published at the end of the month changed the rating to \u201cTrue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A note affixed to the top of the article cites an April 8 letter to a New York judge requesting jail time for one of the two people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/woman-gets-sentenced-to-prison-for-selling-ashley-bidens-diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted of stealing<\/a> Ashley Biden\u2019s diary in the run-up to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online,\u201d Ashley Biden wrote in the letter, which The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/documenttools\/654c5f7182bca1ee\/6fe57478-full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ignored-by-media-data-scientists-testify-17650-votes-were-switched-from-trump-to-biden-in-georgia-amazing-video\/\" title=\"IGNORED BY MEDIA: Data Scientists Testify 17,650 Votes Were Switched from Trump to Biden in Georgia (AMAZING VIDEO)\">published online<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Snopes said previous versions of the fact-check noted \u201cstrong evidence\u201d that the diary existed but argued no source had authenticated the contents of the pages that were published online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/217072\/cotton-probes-for-doj-employees-spilling-beans-on-investigation-into-missing-ashley-biden-diary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alleged pages<\/a> from the first daughter\u2019s diary, including one talking about being \u201chyper-sexualized\u201d at a young age and \u201cshowers w\/ my dad (probably not appropriate),\u201d were <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/official-national-file-statement-regarding-fbi-interest-in-ashley-bidens-probably-not-appropriate-showers-diary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> by a website called National File.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier iteration of the Snopes fact-check claimed \u201cthe authenticity of photographs purported to be from a diary is a separate question from the factual existence of a diary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712242396228000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3WzjrNXCr1KblP2z8dS_jB\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>With the latest assessment, the update note concluded, \u201cAshley Biden\u2019s letter to the court, in Snopes\u2019 view, provides that authentication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her letter to the court, Ashley Biden said her journal was part of her efforts to heal after being the victim of a crime in her early 20s.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Biden claimed that she was targeted because her father had been running for president, and the publicity the diary had drawn led her to be \u201cconstantly re-traumatized by it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said: \u201cRepeatedly, I hear others grossly misinterpret my once-private writings and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-gop-messaging-guide-urges-senators-to-avoid-democrat-style-attacks-on-ketanji-brown-jackson\/\" title=\"Leaked GOP Messaging Guide Urges Senators To Avoid Democrat-Style Attacks On Ketanji Brown Jackson\">lob false accusations<\/a> that defame my character and those of the people I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snopes, a fact-checking 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