Snopes has been found to be two people who ran this out of their basement, they are both divorced now and Snopes is out of business...
“Snopes has been found to be two people who ran this out of their basement, they are both divorced now and Snopes is out of business...”
The way I heard it over a decade ago was that Snopes was a lib white-trash couple doing this from their house trailer. Snopes was the name of their cat.
and yes, the lib white-trash couple has parted ways due to typical white-trash shenanigans: the husband part of the couple had hired a hooker as their employee, but eventually cleaned out the bank accounts and ran off with the hooker.