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I haven't heard of snopes.com before and am having a hard time figuring it out. Is it like a Digg clone for 'urban legends' ? What makes it popular ? Also, w

• qohen 9y ago
  I haven't heard of snopes.com before From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com Snopes.com /ˈsnoʊps/, also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin.[4] It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture,[5] receiving 300,000 visits a day as of 2010. Snopes.com was created by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a California couple who met in the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup. The site is organized by topic and includes a message board where stories and pictures of questionable veracity may be posted.