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Entertainment and historical claims

Snopes' focus on verifying entertainment and historical claims

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Jan 23, 2026
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How does Snopes' fact-checking methodology compare to PolitiFact and FactCheck.org?

, and share core fact-checking goals—investigating claims and assigning a verdict—but they differ in rating systems, institutional footing, claim selection and historical focus, producing mostly high ...

Jan 25, 2026

What are established criteria historians use to attribute modern slogans to historical propaganda sources?

Historians rely on a predictable set of source-criticism criteria to decide whether a modern slogan traces back to a historical source: provenance and attribution, contemporaneous corroboration, the m...

Jan 16, 2026

How do fact‑checking organizations trace the origin of viral food‑safety hoaxes?

Fact‑checking organizations trace viral food‑safety hoaxes by combining platform forensics and archival searches with scientific verification (laboratory testing and analytical methods) and institutio...

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