Tag Archives: snopes

Snopes.com

Posted on April 10, 2009

Q: Is Snopes.com run by "very Democratic" proprietors? Did they lie to discredit a State Farm insurance agent who attacked Obama? A: A chain e-mail that "exposed" Snopes contains falsehoods. And in fact, the site is run by someone who has no political party affiliation and his non-voting Canadian wife. …
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Life Cycle of a Rumor

Posted on October 22, 2008

One thing we’ve noticed at FactCheck is that e-mail rumors tend to circulate, get debunked (ideally), go dormant for a while, and then flare up again. Think of it as a horde of zombies — they come at you, you kill them, you breathe a sigh of relief, and then …
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Why We’re Not Called FutureCheck

Posted on September 30, 2008

We’ve received countless e-mails about a rumor that Joe Biden is planning to step down from the Democratic race, to be replaced by Hillary Clinton. Here’s the chain e-mail in question: Anonymous chain e-mail: Let me share some info with you that I have gotten from excellent sources within the …
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Have You Looked At Obama’s “Not Exactlys?”

Posted on September 12, 2008

Not exactly. Actually, we’ve looked at it rather a lot. We just haven’t written about it. Until now. You surely know the e-mail we’re talking about. It’s one of the more popular chain e-mails that our readers keep sending our way. You know, the one that starts out with Selma …
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