Anyone use Snopes to check up on scams and the like??
 

This looks like it is still the baby of two Los Angeles residents-- Barbara and David Mikkelson. snopes.com: About the people behind snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp


Anybody else use it to research various things like political slimes, scams of various kinds, urban legends, etc. I rarely use it but it seemed to be an often used tool by some of the talking heads at Doggie Doo Run Run.

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I use Snopes frequently and have found it to be an excellent resource.

I've used Snopes for years. They debunk a lot of false information circulating in "mass" e-mails.

I use it all the time
 

to check out some of the emails that are circulating, especially if they sound a bit questionable. It is a good source to find out what is the story behind the story and you get to realize how much info is actually not fact but distorted or deleted from something someone heard or thought they read. A good source for urban legends too.


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[QUOTE=Taltarzac725;466352]This looks like it is still the baby of two Los Angeles residents-- Barbara and David Mikkelson. snopes.com: About the people behind snopes.com

snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages


Anybody else use it to research various things like political slimes, scams of various kinds, urban legends, etc. I rarely use it but it seemed to be an often used tool by some of the talking heads at Doggie Doo Run Run.[/QUOT

I've used it numerous times to help sort through e-mail excrement.... Snopes has also made one of my brother in laws the smartest person in the room on every e-mail exchange and Facebook post! :)

I use it to check the veracity of forwarded emails.

Excellent source...been using it for years.:thumbup:

If you're not satisfied or feel uncomfortable using Snopes, there are other sites that will verify or debunk information.

Top 10 sites to debunk urban legends | TechRepublic

Thanks, pooh. I do feel uncomfortable using Snopes, so I appreciate the other sites.

Great site. Use it check scam emails, chain emails, and veracity of email political statements.

I always use snopes (heck, I thought that The Villages was an urban legend..too good to be true). Why would someone be hesitant to use it?

From what I can tell it is just a couple in LA who research stuff--the Mikkelsons. They do probably nothing more than you yourself could do using Google, Chrome Google, Altavista, Bing, and many other web search engines.

They have no inside information about anything that I can see.

On the positive side, I have never seen any hidden agenda with their research. They just research some matter and then post where they found this research. Much like a reference librarian is supposed to do in any US public library.

Did Johnny Cash ever serve time in prison? What's your source for this? Two questions I actually got while an assistant at Englewood PL in Colorado back in 1984.

I love who is backing this site, George Soros himself the Uber-leftest Billionaire of the Democratic Party, what a surprise

What's your source for that??

This statement is utterly false and is a good reason why an award winning web site like snopes exists.
The snopes web site is (and always has been) a completely independent, self-sufficient entity wholly owned by its operators, Barbara and David Mikkelson, and funded through advertising revenues. Neither the site nor its operators has ever received monies from (or been engaged in any business or editorial relationship with), any sponsor, investor, partner, political party, religious group, business organization, government agency, or any other outside group or organization.