Snopes Sentence Examples

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  • I mention FactCheck and Snopes as two examples of the many enterprises on the Internet that subject every government utterance to scrutiny in something approximating real time.

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  • Many people check the large database on the Snopes site when they hear stories in order to separate fact from fiction.

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  • Daily Snopes provides a daily email list of stories circulating on the Internet and the message board allows individuals to post whatever rumor they heard to check with the community on its veracity.

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  • The website Snopes is renowned for its ability to pick through urban legends and separate the real from the absurd.

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  • Snopes staffers noticed that the show featured very obscure urban legends that were mostly only found on the Snopes website.

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  • To test their suspicions that the show wasn't verifying Snopes's information with other sources, the staffers made up a very impossible "True" legend.

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  • The urban legend Snopes created claimed that the famous pirate Blackbeard created the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" as a coded pirate recruitment song.

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  • When the show aired using the made-up legend, Snopes staffers were amazed.

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  • The Internet can provide a valuable resource, since many urban legends are dissected by Snopes and other websites soon after making the rounds in chain emails and college dorms.

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  • However, Snopes declared this rumor false.

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