Comments on: Please Use Snopes

By: Cindy Siebert

Cindy Siebert — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:27:18 +0000

In reply to Nancy. Nancy, I hope you found the information you need. Thanks for stopping by.

By: Cindy Siebert

Cindy Siebert — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:26:46 +0000

In reply to Theresa. Theresa, if I were sending those messages I'd leave off that last part. Seems like your waving a red flag. But you are probably right about the trolls. Thank you for your comments.

By: Cindy Siebert

Cindy Siebert — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:25:24 +0000

In reply to Joanne. Joanne, glad I could introduce you to Snopes. Thanks for stopping by!

By: Cindy Siebert

Cindy Siebert — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:24:39 +0000

In reply to Morgan Eckstein. I totally agree, Morgan. It seems like all the major news sites seem to lack fact checkers these days. Thanks for stopping by.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:25:14 +0000

In reply to Nancy. Spelling correction: has wax in it, sorry.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:23:14 +0000

Wow…I’m going to check out Snopes I saw on facebook about the package noodles have wax in it and it cause cancer need to verify. Thanks for sharing.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:09:35 +0000

Thanks so much for this, and thanks for replying about Snope’s reliability. I occasionally see posts that read something like “Double Headed Chickens Coming to Your Grocery Store Soon! It’s true! Don’t Check Snopes; They’re in on This Conspiracy Too!!” Trolls gotta troll the credulous, I guess. :/

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:39:22 +0000

Wow, this is such an important topic. I had never heard of Snopes and I appreciate you teaching me about it.

By: Morgan Eckstein

Morgan Eckstein — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:06:26 +0000

It is not just normal ordinary people that I wish would use the site. The other day, Fox News reported a story that was created by a satire site–what no fact checkers? no internet access? Of course, what gets me about the social sharing is the number of false stories that if you stop and think about for two seconds, you would realize that they have to be false.

By: Cindy Siebert

Cindy Siebert — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:25:36 +0000

In reply to Wendy (the Local Cook).

Wendy, I did some checking on this after you posted. I would want to know if Snopes were not reliable. Both FactCheck.org (http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/) and Urban Legends (http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/snopes_exposed.htm) have debunked the idea that snopes has been snoped. I hope this makes you feel a little better about trusting Snopes.