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== References == {{reflist|refs= <ref name="webby">{{cite web | url = http://webbyawards.com/lists/how-the-truth-set-snopes-free | website = [[Webby Awards]] | title = How the Truth Set Snopes Free | date = October 19, 2016 | access-date = December 10, 2018 | archive-date = December 17, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161217025540/http://webbyawards.com/lists/how-the-truth-set-snopes-free/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="tri">{{Cite web | url = https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/343 | title = Triangulation 343 David Mikkelson, Snopes.com | website = TWiT.tv | language = en-US | access-date = April 25, 2018 | archive-date = April 26, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180426075955/https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/343 | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="nyt100405">{{cite news | author = Stelter | first = Brian | author-link = Brian Stelter | date = April 4, 2010 | title = Debunkers of Fictions Sift the Net | work = The New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/technology/05snopes.html | url-status = live | url-access = subscription | access-date = April 5, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230422071500/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/technology/05snopes.html | archive-date = April 22, 2023 }}</ref> <ref name="Chron">{{cite news | last = Bond | first = Paul | date = September 7, 2002 | title = Web site separates fact from urban legend | work = [[SFGATE]] | url = http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Web-site-separates-fact-from-urban-legend-2800717.php | access-date = July 17, 2012 | archive-date = August 5, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180805112819/https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Web-site-separates-fact-from-urban-legend-2800717.php | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="Porter">{{cite book | last = Porter | first = David | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KQLaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 | title = Internet Culture | chapter = Usenet Communities and the Cultural Politics of Information | publisher = [[Routledge]] | year = 2013 | page = 48 | isbn = 978-1135209049 | access-date = September 13, 2016 | quote = The two most notorious trollers in AFU, [[Ted Frank]] and snopes, are also two of the most consistent posters of serious research. | archive-date = July 16, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230716164036/https://books.google.com/books?id=KQLaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="Seipp">{{cite news | first = Cathy | last = Seipp | author-link = Catherine Seipp | work = [[National Review]] | title = Where Urban Legends Fall | url = http://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200407210830.asp | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040812075515/http://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200407210830.asp | archive-date = August 12, 2004 | access-date = February 7, 2014 | date = July 21, 2004 }}</ref> <ref name="CNS_Bruno">{{cite web | access-date=January 31, 2025 | publisher=[[Courthouse News Service|Courthouse News]] | date=May 10, 2017 | first1=Bianca | last1=Bruno | url=https://www.courthousenews.com/fact-checker-snopes-owners-accused-corporate-subterfuge/ | title=Fact-Checker Snopes' Owners Accused of Corporate Subterfuge | quote=While Proper Media was already managing a significant amount of the operation of Snopes including all content and advertising accounts prior to acquiring shares in the company, the company says in its complaint that when its individual shareholders, including Vincent Green, gained a stake in Snopes a scam was launched to take over the website – one of the 1,000 most popular in the United States. But Proper Media says in its complaint that Mikkelson “was unhappy that Barbara maintained ownership of half of what he always considered to be his company after the divorce.” Thus, Proper Media says, Green and Mikkelson conspired to gain majority control of Bardav and Snopes.com. Mikkelson and Green blocked its access to “personnel, accounts, tools and data necessary to manage Snopes,” according to the lawsuit.}}</ref> <ref name="nyt2019aug2">{{Cite news | last = Chokshi | first = Niraj | date = August 3, 2019 | title = Satire or Deceit? Christian Humor Site Feuds With Snopes | language = en-US | work = [[The New York Times]] | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/snopes-babylon-bee.html | url-status = live | access-date = August 16, 2019 | issn = 0362-4331 | archive-date = August 13, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190813030030/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/snopes-babylon-bee.html }}</ref> <ref name="buzzfeed">{{Cite web | last = Broderick | first = Ryan | date = July 31, 2019 | title = A Christian Satire Site Says Fact-Checkers Are Helping De-Platform Conservatives | url = https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/a-christian-satire-site-is-pushing-a-conspiracy-that-fact | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190813030036/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/a-christian-satire-site-is-pushing-a-conspiracy-that-fact | archive-date = August 13, 2019 | access-date = August 16, 2019 | website = [[BuzzFeed News]] | language = en }}</ref> <ref name="Ron Lyons, Jr.">{{cite news | last1 = Lyons | first1 = Ron Jr. | date = August 13, 2021 | access-date = August 16, 2021 | title = The CEO of fact-checking site Snopes was caught plagiarizing dozens of articles | language = en-AU | work = Business Insider Australia | url = https://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-of-snopes-plagiarized-dozens-of-articles-2021-8?r=US&IR=T | archive-date = August 13, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210813205530/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ceo-of-snopes-plagiarized-dozens-of-articles-2021-8?r=US&IR=T | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="auto">{{Cite news | last = Murphy | first = Heather | date = 2021-08-13 | title = Snopes Retracts 60 Articles Plagiarized by Co-Founder: 'Our Staff Are Gutted' | language = en-US | work = The New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/business/media/snopes-plagiarism-David-Mikkelson.html | access-date = 2021-08-14 | issn = 0362-4331 | archive-date = August 14, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210814185659/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/business/media/snopes-plagiarism-David-Mikkelson.html | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="yahoo">{{cite web | access-date=2024-01-31 | url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/snopes-co-owners-acquire-remaining-140000348.html | title=Snopes Co-Owners Acquire All Remaining Shares of the Company, Bringing Total Stake to 100% | date=2022-09-23 | author=Snopes Media Group | quote=Snopes, the world's leading fact-checking site, today announced that two of its shareholders, Chris Richmond and Drew Schoentrup, have acquired 100% of the company. ~. Effective Sept. 16, Mikkelson stepped down as chief executive officer and stepped down from the Snopes Board of Directors. Richmond, who has served as a board member of Snopes since 2018, has assumed the role of chief executive officer}}</ref> <ref name="FactCheck">{{cite web | url = http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/ | title = Ask FactCheck: Snopes.com | website = [[FactCheck.org]] | date = April 10, 2009 | access-date = November 4, 2011 | archive-date = January 4, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220104205504/https://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="NYT">{{cite news | last1 = Streitfeld | first1 = David | title = For Fact Checking Website Snopes, a Bigger Role Brings More Attacks | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/technology/for-fact-checking-website-snopes-a-bigger-role-brings-more-attacks.html?_r=0 | access-date = December 27, 2016 | work = The New York Times | date = December 25, 2016 | url-access = limited | archive-date = December 28, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161228150636/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/technology/for-fact-checking-website-snopes-a-bigger-role-brings-more-attacks.html?_r=0 | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="Disclosures">{{cite web | title = Disclosures | url = https://www.snopes.com/disclosures/ | website = Snopes.com | access-date = March 3, 2021 | archive-date = October 31, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211031102121/https://www.snopes.com/disclosures/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="bXXvq">{{cite web | access-date=January 31, 2025 | url=https://www.npr.org/2005/08/27/4819108/snopes-com-debunking-myths-in-cyberspace | title=Snopes.com: Debunking Myths in Cyberspace | publisher=[[NPR]] | date=August 27, 2005 | last=Fine | first=Doug | quote=David Mikkelson's Web site is a verb. Along with Google, hip Web surfers now Snopes anything having to do with urban legends, pop culture myths and general folklore. ~. The 45-year-old and his wife, Barbara, founded Snopes.com on a whim back in 1995. The site gets its name from Mikkelson's old Internet nickname.}}</ref> <ref name="NwKqn">{{cite web | url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/77880145/ | first = Melissa | last = Allison | title = Companies Find Rumors Hard to Kill on Internet | work = Herald and Review | date = March 4, 2007 | access-date = June 9, 2018 | archive-date = June 12, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142922/https://www.newspapers.com/image/77880145/ | url-status = live }} (image 3).</ref> <ref name="zqpch">Same article: {{cite web | url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/359621651 | title = Corporations Combat Insistent Urban Legends on Internet | work = The Courier | date = March 4, 2007 | access-date = June 9, 2018 | archive-date = June 12, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180612170002/http://www.newspapers.com/image/359621651/ | url-status = live }} (image 7).</ref> <ref name="2qSrZ">{{cite book | last = Henry | first = Neil | title = American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780520243422 | url-access = registration | publisher = University of California Press | year = 2007 | page = [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780520243422/page/285 285] | isbn = 978-0520243422 | quote = The most widely known resource for validating or debunking rumors, myths, hoaxes, and urban legends in popular American culture is the website run by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson at www.snopes.com... . }}</ref> <ref name="W4pKe">{{Cite web | title = About Us | url = https://www.snopes.com/about/ | access-date = 2023-06-03 | website = Snopes | archive-date = June 3, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230603142507/https://www.snopes.com/about/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="U3B0T">{{Cite web | last1 = Tattoli | first1 = Chantel | last2 = Jones | first2 = Dean Sterling | date = June 6, 2023 | title = Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon | url = https://www.fastcompany.com/90901113/inside-snopes-the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-an-internet-icon | access-date = 3 June 2023 | website = [[Fast Company]] | archive-date = June 3, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230603094532/https://www.fastcompany.com/90901113/inside-snopes-the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-an-internet-icon | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="UfNsE">{{cite book | access-date=January 31, 2025 | first1=William | first2=James W. | last1=Aspray | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oeeoDwAAQBAJ&q=From+Urban+Legends+to+Political+Fact-Checking%3A+Online+Scrutiny+in+America | title=From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking: Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015 | publisher=[[Springer Nature]] | date=August 12, 2019 | last2=Cortada | page=24 | language=en | isbn=978-3-030-22951-1 | publication-place=Cham, Switzerland}}</ref> <ref name="SrJjD">{{cite web | url = http://www.snopes.com/info/faq.asp#snopes | title = Frequently Asked Questions | quote = What are 'snopes'? | website = Snopes | access-date = June 9, 2006 | archive-date = October 31, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211031124010/http://www.snopes.com/info/faq.asp#snopes | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="ZYklr">{{cite news | last = Stelter | first = Brian | title = Debunkers of Fictions Sift the Net | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/technology/05snopes.html | access-date = March 19, 2013 | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | date = April 4, 2010 | url-access = limited | archive-date = April 6, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100406221442/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/technology/05snopes.html | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="RXQhb">{{cite web | url = https://www.quantcast.com/snopes.com?country=US | title = Snopes.com Audience Insights | website = Quantcast | url-access = registration <!-- Do we need this restricted-access citation? --> | access-date = January 19, 2018 | archive-date = October 13, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171013174232/https://www.quantcast.com/snopes.com?country=US | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="so2d3">{{cite news | last1 = Madrigal | first1 = Alexis C. | title = Snopes Faces an Ugly Legal Battle | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/the-ugly-dispute-threatening-snopes/534708/ | work = [[The Atlantic]] | date = July 24, 2017 | access-date = June 20, 2018 | archive-date = May 12, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190512043759/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/the-ugly-dispute-threatening-snopes/534708/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="8XEZo">{{cite news | last1 = Farhi | first1 = Paul | title = Is Snopes.com, the original Internet fact-checker, going out of business? | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-snopescom-the-original-internet-fact-checker-going-out-of-business/2017/07/24/8a03d196-708d-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = July 24, 2017 | access-date = January 19, 2018 | archive-date = July 27, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170727164116/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-snopescom-the-original-internet-fact-checker-going-out-of-business/2017/07/24/8a03d196-708d-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="fcs4Q">{{cite news | last1 = Victor | first1 = Daniel | title = Snopes, in Heated Legal Battle, Asks Readers for Money to Survive | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/business/media/snopes-crowdfunding-proper-media.html | work = The New York Times | date = July 24, 2017 | url-access = limited | access-date = January 19, 2018 | archive-date = July 25, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170725000615/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/business/media/snopes-crowdfunding-proper-media.html | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="Hw4f0">{{cite web | title = Snopes Meets $500K Crowdfunding Goal Amid Legal Battle | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-25/snopes-launches-online-fundraiser-amid-legal-battle | website = [[Bloomberg Businessweek|Bloomberg]] | date = July 25, 2017 | access-date = December 18, 2017 | agency = [[Associated Press]] | archive-date = December 22, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171222104911/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-25/snopes-launches-online-fundraiser-amid-legal-battle | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="4EDNC">{{cite magazine | last1 = Dean | first1 = Michelle | title = Snopes and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World | url = https://www.wired.com/story/snopes-and-the-search-for-facts-in-a-post-fact-world? | date = September 20, 2017 | magazine = [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] | access-date = December 10, 2018 }}</ref> <ref name="jgajb">{{cite web | url = https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2018/snopes-fired-its-managing-editor-%C2%97-and-she-doesnt-know-why/ | title = Snopes fired its managing editor and she doesn't know why | work = Poynter | publisher = [[Poynter Institute]] | date = July 31, 2018 | accessdate = August 24, 2021 | archive-date = August 13, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210813211920/https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2018/snopes-fired-its-managing-editor-%C2%97-and-she-doesnt-know-why/ | url-status = live | last1 = Funke | first1 = Daniel }}</ref> <ref name="xpUaQ">{{Cite web | url = https://www.snopes.com/ontheissues-coming-soon/ | title = Snopes Acquires On The Issues | website = Snopes | access-date = April 13, 2019 }}{{dead link|date=May 2021}}</ref> <ref name="TCJes">{{Cite web | url = https://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/11/04/why-its-so-hard-to-find-out-where-the-candidates-stand/ | title = Why It's So Hard to Find Out Where the Candidates Stand | last = Potash | first = Eric | date = November 4, 2016 | website = Washington Monthly | access-date = April 4, 2019 | archive-date = April 13, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190413112948/https://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/11/04/why-its-so-hard-to-find-out-where-the-candidates-stand/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="FgmcC">{{Cite news|last=Wemple|first=Erik|date=March 5, 2018|title=Opinion {{!}} Facebook working on approach to classifying satirical news pieces|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/03/05/facebook-working-on-approach-to-classifying-satirical-news-pieces/|url-status=live|access-date=December 28, 2020|archive-date=July 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731011826/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/03/05/facebook-working-on-approach-to-classifying-satirical-news-pieces/}}</ref> <ref name="gsgc0">{{Cite web | last = | first = | date = August 16, 2019 | title = Let's Make Fact-Checking Even Better | url = https://www.snopes.com/make-fact-checking-better/ | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210615031155/https://www.snopes.com/2019/08/16/make-fact-checking-better/ | archive-date = June 15, 2021 | access-date = August 17, 2019 | website = Snopes | language = en-US }}</ref> <ref name="LBCSi">{{cite web | url = https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tacoma-based-snopes-debunker-of-fake-news-is-locked-in-a-nasty-legal-dispute/ | title = Tacoma-based Snopes, debunker of fake news, is locked in a nasty legal dispute | publisher = [[The Seattle Times]] | date = June 4, 2019 | accessdate = August 27, 2021 | archive-date = August 27, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210827143253/https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tacoma-based-snopes-debunker-of-fake-news-is-locked-in-a-nasty-legal-dispute/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="Ys1hw">{{Cite web | date = 2020-03-21 | title = Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking | url = https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/ | access-date = 2022-01-15 | website = Snopes.com | language = en-US | archive-date = January 15, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220115185655/https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="wmBAB">{{Cite web | title = The Coronavirus Collection: Snopes Fact Checks About COVID-19 | url = https://www.snopes.com/collections/new-coronavirus-collection/ | access-date = 2022-01-15 | website = Snopes.com | date = February 28, 2020 | language = en-US | archive-date = January 15, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220115185655/https://www.snopes.com/collections/new-coronavirus-collection/ | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="HA5X5">{{cite news | last1 = Lyons | first1 = Kim | date = August 13, 2021 | title = Go read this report about a Snopes editor who plagiarized other news sites | language = en | work = The Verge | url = https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623442/buzzfeed-snopes-plagiarism-fact-check-report | access-date = August 13, 2021 | archive-date = August 13, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210813203714/https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623442/buzzfeed-snopes-plagiarism-fact-check-report | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="lfTgN">{{Cite web | title = The Cofounder Of The Fact-Checking Site Snopes Was Writing Plagiarized Articles Under A Fake Name | url = https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson | access-date = 2021-08-14 | website = BuzzFeed News | language = en | archive-date = August 13, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210813175422/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="N8AtM">{{cite news | last1 = Jones | first1 = Dean Sterling | date = August 13, 2021 | title = The Cofounder Of The Fact-Checking Site Snopes Was Writing Plagiarized Articles Under A Fake Name | language = en | work = [[BuzzFeed]] | url = https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson | access-date = August 13, 2021 | archive-date = August 13, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210813175422/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson | url-status = live }}</ref> 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Nostradamus and other tall tales | website = [[CNN]] | date = October 3, 2001 | access-date = June 7, 2009 | archive-date = August 25, 2004 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040825220942/http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/03/rec.false.rumors/index.html | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="wlXsT">{{cite news | url = http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17798063/ | title = Urban Legends Banned-April Fools'! | website = [[MSNBC]] | date = April 1, 2007 | access-date = June 7, 2009 | archive-date = October 13, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131013122153/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17798063/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> <ref name="cTalM">{{cite web | url = http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp | title = Urban Legends Reference Pages: Who Is Barack Obama? | date = August 24, 2008 | website = Snopes | access-date = January 22, 2008 }}</ref> <ref name="OUfpj">{{cite web | last = Hochman | first = David | url = http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/rumor-detectives-true-story-or-online-hoax/article122216.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090318123647/http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/rumor-detectives-true-story-or-online-hoax/article122216.html | archive-date = March 18, 2009 | date = March 2009 | website = [[Reader's Digest]] | title = Rumor Detectives: True Story or Online Hoax? | access-date = March 29, 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> <ref name="YdEuC">{{cite news | last = Lacitis | first = Erik | date = October 10, 2018 | title = Lies, lies and more lies. 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