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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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 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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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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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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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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According to Snopes myths and rumors factcheck website analysis, Russian-owned websites copy-paste pro-Russian propaganda about Russia's alleged aims "to...
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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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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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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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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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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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2023. LaCapria, Kim (14 January 2016). "Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors". snopes. Archived from the original on 2020-06-28...
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Legends Reference Pages. Snopes.com. Advice to management Tech Republic ePolicy Institute Trevor Luxton e-mail: Unclever Trevor Snopes.com, 12 July 2007 -...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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debunked as conspiracy theories, and labelled as "False" by fact-checkers Snopes. In December 2023, X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk contributed to the...
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outside the curse have faced assassination attempts or medical problems. Snopes rates the claim that a "death curse threatens U.S. presidents elected in...
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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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". Snopes.com. Retrieved 2021-04-09. Emery, David (October 3, 2016). "Does Bill Clinton Have an Illegitimate Son Named Danney Williams?". Snopes. Retrieved...
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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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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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ISBN 978-0803220584. Barbara Mikkelson (July 9, 2007). "Red Light District". snopes.com. Retrieved October 3, 2010. Woolston, Howard Brown (1921). Prostitution...
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of rutted roads marked by chariot wheels dating from the Roman Empire. Snopes categorised this legend as "false", but commented that it "is perhaps more...
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