Articles About Snopes.com
Snopes.com is routinely recognized in “Best of the Web” lists and has been the recipient of two Webby awards. Snopes fact-checkers have been guests of national news programs such as 20/20, ABC World News, CNN Sunday Morning, and NPR’s All Things Considered, and their work has been profiled in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Stories published about Snopes.com:
- “Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon”
FastCompany, 02 June 2023 - “The truth is within your reach”
Times West Virginian, 11 October 2020 - “Snopes.com: In search of truth, one myth at a time”
King5, 16 September 2020 - “Next time someone sends you fake news, share these essential tips”
Vox, 11 September 2020 - “Is Snopes Biased or Reliable? 5 Facts About Its Accuracy”
Make Use Of, 5 June 2020 - “Why coronavirus misinformation is so hard to fight”
PBS NewsHour, 19 May 2020 - “True or false: Can you spot the infodemic in our midst?”
KUOW, 28 April 2020 - “The dangerous global flood of misinformation surrounding COVID-19”
PBS NewsHour, 28 April 2020 - “Blow Drying Your Face, Drinking Bleach Among Coronavirus Myths Debunked By Snopes”
WBUR & NPR, 27 April 2020 - “There are so many coronavirus myths that even Snopes can’t keep up”
The Washington Post, 15 April 2020 - “Fact-checkers inundated by the coronavirus’ ongoing ‘infodemic’”
The San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 April 2020 - “One of the internet's oldest fact-checking organizations is overwhelmed by coronavirus misinformation — and it could have deadly consequences”
Business Insider, 31 March 2020 - “With ad rates falling, Snopes can’t keep up with coronavirus misinformation”
Digiday, 27 March 2020 - “An Interview With Snopes.com About Fighting Coronavirus Lies”
Slate, 26 March 2020 - "The 50 Most Important Websites of All Time"
Popular Mechanics, 29 October 2019 - "Snopes: How Do You Survive 25 Years Debunking Fake News?"
BBC News, 23 September 2019 - An Interview with the Founder of Snopes
Northwest Now, 14 December 2018 - “100 Websites That Shaped the Internet As We Know It”
Gizmodo, 19 October 2018 - “The Debunking Website Snopes Turns 25 Next Year. And That's Not Fake News”
Los Angeles Times, 12 October 2018 - “Lies, Lies and More Lies. Out of an Old Tacoma House, Fact-Checking Site Snopes Uncovers Them”
The Seattle Times, 10 October 2018 - “Snopes and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World”
Wired, 9 September 2017 - “How The Truth Set Snopes Free”
The Webby Awards, 19 October 2016 - “Can mythbusters like Snopes.com keep up in a post-truth world?”
The Guardian, 1 August 2016 - "An Interview with the Editor of Snopes"
The Washington Post, 17 December 2015 - "So Who's Checking the Fact-Finders? We Are"
The Florida Times-Union, 29 September 2012 - "At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light"
The New York Times, 15 July 2010 - "Chain E-Mail ... Like That's a Bad Thing"
The [Terre Haute] Tribune Star, 28 April 2010 - "At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online"
The New York Times, 4 April 2010 - "Rumor Detectives: True Story or Online Hoax?"
Reader's Digest, April 2009 - "Snopes.com"
FactCheck, April 2009 - "Site Busts the Web's Biggest Myths"
NPR, 20 March 2010 - "Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: Snopes.com Gets an 'A'"
Network World, 13 April 2009 - "Too Good To Be True? It Usually Is"
Washington Post, 28 September 2008 - "Snopes: The Website That Explodes Urban Myths"
The Guardian, 16 June 2008 - "Snopes.com: Debunking Myths in Cyberspace"
NPR, 27 August 2005 - "Interview with David Mikkelson, Barbara Mikkelson"
CNN Sunday Morning, 2 May 2004 - "Rumors Put Through Mill"
Los Angeles Times, 22 August 2004 - "Don't Believe Everything You Read Online"
BBC News, 15 August 2003 - "For Snopes.com, Debunking the Bambi Hoax Was All in a Day's Work"
Online Journalism Review, 31 July 2003 - "Urban Legends Reference Pages"
The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2003 - "Web Site Separates Fact from Urban Legend"
Hollywood Reporter, 7 September 2002 - "True and Untrue Urban Legends"
ABC News, 19 February 2002 - "The Rumor Busters"
Salon, 31 October 2001 - "Hear the Rumor? Nostradamus and Other Tall Tales"
CNN, 3 October 2001 - "Terrorist Urban Legends"
NPR, 26 September 2001 - "Internet Spreads Myths, and Debunks Them Too"
Chicago Tribune, 6 August 1998 - "Site-Seeing -- 'The Urban Legends Reference Pages'"
The Seattle Times, 3 May 1998 - "What Debunks a Legend Most? Research"
Los Angeles Times, 6 October 1997 - "Only Connect: Urban Legends Reference Pages"
The New Yorker, 6 October 1997