snopes

Snopes (pronounce /ˈsnoʊps/), also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website that is the most widely-known resource for validating or debunking urban legends, Internet rumors, email forwards, and other such stories of uncertain or questionable origin in popular American culture. Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a couple from California who married after meeting on the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban. The couple also founded the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society, and were credited as the owners of the site until 2005. The site is organized according to topic and includes a messageboard where questionable stories and pictures may be posted.

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This site, reference pages of urban legends, is named for a family that appears in William Faulkner's books
Surname of Faulkner's Flem(6)

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Snopes: Islamic Agenda
Amazed @snopes was even asked this:
@snopes A painfully obvious photoshop job, at that!
Vladimir Putin's speech on #Muslims
RT @snopes: An ominous threat from the "Advancement of #Islamic Agenda for #America." Real or #Photoshop?
An ominous threat from the "Advancement of #Islamic Agenda for #America." Real or #Photoshop?
Waitaminute: Shaquille O’Neal has a MBA *and* a Ed.D.?!! Should I consult Snopes?
@RubyGettinger_ this is false please use your platform to get this out
@99golems I'm a big G-Dub fan and I know he's been a teetotaler for decades so I when I saw the story I was skeptical. Snopes on the spot.
Muslims in the Obama Administration.
I Love the FB Mesenger App...there I said it. . Facebook Messenger
RT @CstShaw: Worried about #ThePurge in #yyc? No worries, I’m shining up our Balkan MK7 just in case! ;)
@dopeytweeter The husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein chairs a company that brokers sales of USPS facilities. crooks
@MasterNate1028
RT @burke_eric: Snopes provides good context on "looting" versus "finding"
@amirightfolks i dont take snopes as definitive proof but i will look into it. ty 4 the link.
@jklinger410 But did you read the goddamned Snopes article that debunks the claims on which you base your charge of racism?
The #PurgeNight hoax is back, with #purge rumors popping up in additional cities:
Is drought-stricken California fining #IceBucketChallenge participants for wasting water?
@mattchuck2 As I said, I've researched this at GREAT length. Evidence is OVERHWELMING Sandy Hook is a hoax. Snopes don't "debunk" jack.
@trulyoursss false... #themoreyouknow 🌠🌠🌠
@Kelloggie @WAGNERGIRLE @Bconsdr8 According to @snopes it isn't the same guy.
@jimmythrasher Thanks for that. So glad snopes exists
@frankambessi No, I hadn't but research hasn't been a part of the Right's vernacular for a long time.No telling what they think Snopes is!
@JasonnJamaal
Hermann Goering Read the whole conversation halfway through the article. Sound familiar?
Facebook Messenger via @po_st
@DonLagreca That spider thing is a lie. Why would a spider crawl into our gaping mouths as we sleep?
#Ethel #Kennedy. Still a champ at age 86.
Enough people thought juveniles were going to imitate a mediocre thriller film that's on this summer for a Snope page
@mattchuck2 @NorthWolf28 - if he gets to use snopes as a creditable source than I'm using Fox and CNN!
Fellow #Canadians, it's time to let go and own up to the truth #warof1812 #whitehouse
Has the news been even more bizarre than usual the past few weeks? I may have to make my default home page.
RT @milwaukeerecord: According to people unfamiliar with #Snopes, #ThePurge is coming to Milwaukee this Friday: http…
@Avonddame @Watapatjee @Lichtbolletje
@deptulahasrage
@McDonalds so the @snopes story saying that the story is false is actually false and there was human meat found in your meat?
@foreman_ken As a Chicagoan, I agree. Did you happen to read the Snopes article on Obama's educational finances?
@CruxLo
NASA Finds Message from God on Mars via @po_st
@NorthWolf28 Idiot, the snopes article, had you bothered to read it, covers it all. Why are you arguing about this? Is this fun for you?
RT @McDonalds: @Grantpascoe Whoa! You can't believe everything you read on the Internet. This story is a work of fiction.
So, @McDonalds just #snopesed someone: via @snopes
U.N. Arms Trade Treaty via @po_st
@mattchuck2 Lmao. What is snopes? Who writes that tripe? Like one guy living in his basement?
@NorthWolf28
@Dingie4366 @jblack501c3 @RavingRaye @foreman_ken Wow, birth records and now this. Upset at #Ferguson at all? Btw
@McDonalds @snopes @Grantpascoe I know, right? Human meat is a much better quality.
@McDonalds @snopes @Grantpascoe HUMAN MEAT! lol, some people will believe anything.
What Does Obama Read?: 'The Post-American World' via @po_st

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