I know it's hated by conservatives, who think it's biased against them. But I think snopes tackles all the memes in circulation, and it's been my experience of the last many years that there are lot more memes--especially those emails that go round and round--that have a distinctly right-wing message.

It may just be that left and right have different styles of communication. I remember from long ago, when I was short, the mimeographed newsletters and circulars the mostly-conservative adults around me were passing around (and pulling off their windshields), and avidly discussing. Leafleting and putting up signs on lamp posts--remember "Impeach Earl Warren!" from those days?--seem more associated with right-wing causes. I think the way the conservative meme traffic has moved to email is now also serving as a way to unite the scattered tribe of conservatives.

I've skirted the question of whether, allowing for the big difference in quantity, the left- or right-wing memes that go around are more truthful. I'm afraid I have to agree that "reality has a liberal bias", something that objective fact-checkers beyond snopes keep validating. This too may be a matter of communications style; maybe liberals misunderstand when they think claims like Obama being Muslim are assertions of fact and thus decidable. I think a lot of the stories that right-wing authoritarians circulate are like scary campfire stories, complete with monster-scapegoat; they provide a little thrill, and serve as a way of bonding through sharing fear and anger.

And boy, that kind of bonding is something we're seeing a lot of these days at Trump rallies. I wonder how long until they start lighting them with torches?