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.
In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ice-capped crater on Mars (archived) that scientists recently discovered.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Various media outlets, including Phys.org and the Daily Mail, used the image in their coverage of the museum's opening. In an email to Snopes, Gingerich, who has conducted research at Wadi Al ...
While news reports and social media videos have caused concern about ... according to the CDC. In January 2025, Snopes readers started searching our site for information about a rumored outbreak ...
A year later, Snopes readers asked us to verify whether X owner Elon Musk genuinely replied to this post at the time by saying that the "heavy use of c-sections" allows modern babies to have "a ...