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Construction of the dam was rumored to also alter the length of days. | Continue reading
Did the British Drop a Wooden Bomb on a Decoy German Airfield? | Continue reading
College journalists are already helping to serve the communities where their universities are located by making sustained contributions to local media. | Continue reading
A tweet shared in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas read, "Guns are banned at the NRA convention in Texas this weekend when Trump speaks. Let that sink in." | Continue reading
Even vicarious travel via the Internet and social media has narrowed for Russians. | Continue reading
It's a non-peer reviewed working paper that has not been endorsed by the university. | Continue reading
Nesmith, who had undergone quadruple bypass surgery in 2018, died at home Friday of natural causes, his family said in a statement. | Continue reading
In late 2021, Twitter users shared an old list of 10 problems that could halt the march of progress in the early 21st century. | Continue reading
The fate of the colony is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the history of the United States. | Continue reading
We looked for the origins of photographs that have frightened readers for well over a decade. | Continue reading
As of this writing, the video had been viewed more than 11 million times across platforms. | Continue reading
Biden’s executive order took aggressive action to prevent the spread of COVID-19. | Continue reading
Such accounts are banned or being removed from Facebook and YouTube. | Continue reading
Proponents of the theory that COVID-19 originated as a result of work performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology keep repeating the same misinformation. | Continue reading
Some may classify getting stuck in the Suez Canal as a dick move. | Continue reading
Despite decades of media mirth-making about the supposed statement, former vice president Al Gore never claimed he "invented the Internet." | Continue reading
We reached out to the Oregon Department of Education about a newsletter it sent to math teachers statewide. | Continue reading
"Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people." | Continue reading
Did the inventor of C++ admit he developed the language solely to create high-paying jobs for programmers? | Continue reading
With the simple push of a button, former President Donald Trump could summon a Diet Coke to the Oval Office. | Continue reading
Here's what the president said hours before right-wing extremists breached the Capitol. | Continue reading
A Proud Boy wearing a shirt with the acronym 6MWE combined with a fascist symbol was seen in D.C. protesting the election of Joe Biden. | Continue reading
We'll give them this: "Operation Snopes-Piercer" isn't the worst name we've heard for a smear campaign. | Continue reading
Dan Quayle’s legacy is the cautionary tale of how he let himself be defined by one debate mistake. | Continue reading
The Trump campaign launched the "Army for Trump" website in March 2020. | Continue reading
Imagine a disk drive that weighed over a ton but stored only 5MB of data. | Continue reading
Memes claim that modern law enforcement evolved out of slave patrols. | Continue reading
In mid-October of 1918, amidst a raging epidemic in the Northeast and rapidly growing outbreaks nationwide, the U.S. Public Health Service circulated leaflets recommending that all citizens wear a mask. | Continue reading
Snopes investigates the coordinated efforts of trolls, scams, and campaigns that aren't quite what they seem. | Continue reading
The medical impact of the new coronavirus is coming into sharper focus as it continues its spread in what is now officially recognized as a pandemic. | Continue reading
A speculative anticipation of a possibility is very different than a 'prediction.' | Continue reading
As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic. | Continue reading
After three months of ignoring Snopes’ request for comment on the inauthentic behavior of the media outlet The BL, Facebook has removed The BL’s pages and groups from the platform. | Continue reading
Snopes’ reporting on the Epoch Times-linked media outlet The BL exposed widespread coordinated inauthentic behavior of foreign origin. Why does Facebook allow this abuse? | Continue reading
Hundreds of fake account admins and 1,929 Facebook advertising violations only begin to tell the story of the Epoch Times-linked, pro-Trump empire known as The BL. | Continue reading
It seems litigation will drag on and legal fees will continue to drain our revenues, threatening Snopes’ existence. | Continue reading
The eventual standardization of railroad gauge in the U.S. was due far less to a slavish devotion to a gauge inherited from England than to the simple fact that the North won the Civil War. | Continue reading
The eventual standardization of railroad gauge in the U.S. was due far less to a slavish devotion to a gauge inherited from England than to the simple fact that the North won the Civil War. | Continue reading
While foreign election interference has dominated discussion of disinformation, most intentionally false content targeting U.S. social media is generated by domestic sources. | Continue reading
Space race legend claims NASA spent millions of dollars developing an 'astronaut pen' that would work in outer space, while the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils. | Continue reading
In a news cycle full of clownish characters and outrageous rhetoric, it’s no wonder satire isn’t fully registering with a lot of readers. | Continue reading
Just because a statistic gets cited a lot in memes doesn’t make it correct. | Continue reading
We will not stand by and allow scorched-earth litigation tactics to destroy our newsroom and trample our First Amendment rights. | Continue reading