What does this mean for Snopes? First, Snopes has not been part of Meta's fact-checking program since early 2019, so we are not affected directly. However, I worry about the effect of this ...

Richmond defended his industry, said he viewed community notes systems positively, and blamed government for suppressing reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop.

Examples of both were quickly shared across social media and seen thousands of times. One early posting (archived) of the video gathered more than 100,000 views before it was taken down.

Snopes contacted the genomics testing company ... For nearly a decade, social media users have claimed that traces of human DNA exist in hot dogs. A study cited by many people was first published ...

Snopes wrote to the site in December 2024 asking ... Joe Young, director of media relations at the IIHS, said via email that the organization does not conduct any overall analysis fatality rates ...

One Snopes reader asked if the rumor was true or false. One Facebook user's copied-and-pasted post (archived) from Jan. 7 read as follows: According to the show 60 Minutes: Just in case you missed ...

Snopes has reached out to Tesla and Musk for their responses to accusations that the company hired people with H-1B visas to "replace" employees who were laid off, and we have not received responses.

Which? also clarified to Snopes that it did not use the word "spying" in its report to mean espionage but rather "the commonly used 'keep a watch on' meaning." In the right-of-replies section in ...

Trump's sentence, which Judge Juan Merchan announced on Jan. 10, 2025, created quite an uproar on social media. According to ... in order to avoid appearing biased prior to the 2024 presidential ...

A live broadcast from KTLA reporter Chip Yost on Jan. 8 confirmed this rumor was false and that the video users shared on X did not show looters. Yost's report documented the same people pictured ...