They were pretty reliable source to go find if something was a hoax before proliferating it.... I used to go there and check a lot, until they got into the lefty slanted political fact checking business too.
The original bulk of that site was ripped off from a series of books (well researched, with variants) by Jan Brunvand. He was even a participant online in the old usenet days discussing other urban rumors.
But anything political, naw, they’d shade the synopsis just so, so they could blur the line and call it false or mixed if they wanted to deny some truth.
They held out hopes for YEARS that Hitlery didn’t lie about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary, claiming at one point that perhaps her muther had lied to HER.