Culture
Who Are The People Behind Snopes?
For most of the early 2000’s, and now well into the 21st century, fact-checking site Snopes has been used by media outlets and baby boomers on Facebook alike to contradict the apparent spreading of misinformation.
By Gwen Farrell3 min read
In its infancy, the now-infamously biased site focused on debunking urban legends and folklore throughout the U.S. But at the dawn of a new age, at the intersection of the Trump presidency and the ‘fake news’ media, Snopes evolved and found its niche as the now go-to analytic investigator of basically any and every claim on the internet.