Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become Snopes.com. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly...
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The Snopes trilogy is a series of three novels written by William Faulkner regarding the Snopes family in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi...
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The Hamlet (redirect from Flem Snopes)
fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. Originally a standalone novel, it was later followed by The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959), forming the Snopes trilogy...
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client was Snopes.com, the largest and oldest fact-checking website on the web. After a year, Proper Media purchased a significant stake in Snopes.com. There...
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The Babylon Bee (section Snopes)
represent The Babylon Bee because "Snopes appears to be actively engaged in an effort to discredit and deplatform us." Snopes later made revisions to the wording...
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Mikkelson, Barbara (10 August 2006). "snopes.com: Death Car". Urban Legends Reference Pages. Retrieved 30 June 2010. "snopes.com: Cement in Lover's Car". Urban...
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November 2016 LaCapria, Kim (2 November 2016), "Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors - Snopes.com's updated guide to the internet's clickbaiting...
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over 80 times in 2017 and 2018 by Poynter-accredited,factcheckers such as Snopes, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and the Associated Press. The European Union's...
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Snopes Major de Spain – Snopes's employer who Sarty warns about the barn burning Mr. Harris – Abner's first mentioned landowner Colonel John Snopes –...
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fictional Snopes family of Mississippi, following The Hamlet and The Town. The Mansion completes Faulkner’s trilogy of novels about the fictional Snopes family...
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Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of the "Snopes" trilogy, following The Hamlet (1940) and completed...
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become the basis of an urban legend. Many news organizations, including Snopes, News.com.au, and LiveAbout, trace the story's origins to a website, now...
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pin depicts an orange hand with a black heart inside on a red background. Snopes compared the orange hand used in the design to red-hand symbols including...
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Mikkelson, David (2019-08-15). "Why We Include Humor and Satire in Snopes.com". Snopes. Archived from the original on 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2023-12-18....
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supposed connection to Blackbeard implying that Snopes was used by the show's producers as a source. Snopes then posted a page about the mistake on their...
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2022). "Did Ben Franklin Pen the Famous 'Death and Taxes' Quote?". Snopes. Snopes Media Group Inc. Retrieved 11 November 2022. DeFoe, Daniel (1726). The...
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"George Carlin on Aging". Snopes.com. Retrieved June 10, 2014. Mikkelson, Barbara (November 1, 2007). "The Paradox of Our Time". Snopes.com. Retrieved June...
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February 9, 1970. snopes (18 December 2015). "Is Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Fortunate Son' About Al Gore? : snopes.com". snopes. "David Eisenhower...
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Kurt Cobain. The myth has been integrated with cannabis culture. In 2017, Snopes.com published an article discrediting the theory, noting that Bic did not...
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money we couldn't even close our safe" and mentioned his emerald dealings. Snopes confirmed that Errol "at some point owned "a stake in an emerald mine" near...
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August 2011. Palma, Bethania (25 November 2016). "Mothman About Town". Snopes.com. Snopes. Retrieved 18 January 2017. Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 33 (Pennsylvania...
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Snopes. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2024-08-03. LaCapria, Kim (2016-01-05). "New Year's Eve Vodka Butt Shots Riot". Snopes. Archived...
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various social media platforms before being fact-checked by the website Snopes two days later. Since then, the story has been covered by a number of media...
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2018-11-17. LaCapria, Kim (December 8, 2017). "Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors". Snopes.com. Retrieved May 26, 2018. Dewey, Caitlin...
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a plantation and slave owner. However, Snopes rated this claim as unproven pending further research. Snopes noted that Harris made errors in some of...
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Bottle Design an Accident?". Snopes. Retrieved June 19, 2024. "Snopes urban legend of the Coca-Cola bottle shape". Snopes.com. May 2, 1999. Archived from...
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According to Snopes, an American myths and rumors factcheck website analysis, Russian-owned websites copy-paste pro-Russian propaganda about Russia's alleged...
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descendant of "plantation and slave owner Hamilton Brown." In 2019, fact-checker Snopes did not disprove Kamala Harris's father's statement, but rated the statement...
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Wheel-well stowaway § List of wheel-well stowaways Snopes rates this account of Morris' death as "Unproven". Snopes rates this account of Kogut's death as a "Legend"...
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