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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    "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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Disinformation Project East StratCom Task Force FactCheck.org Full Fact Logically NewsGuard PolitiFact Snopes StopFake United States Information Agency USAFacts...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Buttigieg's Father a Marxist Who Spoke Fondly of 'Communist Manifesto'?". Snopes. Snopes Media Group Inc. Retrieved August 29, 2023. St. Martin, Victoria (January...
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