Snopes
Snopes is a web site to check facts. It was popular to use this site to destroy myths and city legends in American modern culture.[1]
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Type of site | Reference pages |
|---|---|
| Created by | Barbara Mikkelson David P. Mikkelson |
| URL | snopes.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required only on forums |
| Launched | 1994 (as Urban Legends Reference Pages) |
| Current status | Active |
Snopes is a web site to check facts. It was popular to use this site to destroy myths and city legends in American modern culture.[1]
It was created in 1994, by David and Barbara Mikkelson. They started a web site that later become Snopes.com. The site was very popular and a lot of users begun filling it with texts and pictures.
The mission of the web site was to declare true or false different city legends. Snopes.com is often used as a source for reporting on channels such as CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. The popularity of Snopes.com is at such a level that many deliberately false rumors and legends claim that they have already been "verified" on the site. In March 2009, the website traffic reached 6.2 million people per month.[2]
References
- ↑ Henry, Neil (2007). American carnival : journalism under siege in an age of new media. Internet Archive. Berkeley : University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24342-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ↑ "Rumor Detectives: True Story or Online Hoax? | Cracking Cases | Reader's Digest". 2009-03-18. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
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