[Oshkalaboomboom]

I used to like Snopes when USENET was the main media and alt.folklore.urban was an entertaining place to read about different urban legends and old wive's tales. That was before it got political. Now I hope it collapses and gets replaced by something more balanced.

[pepsionice]

For the first decade, it was a fairly non-political type site and had some value. I think around 2004...it started to dissolve into some chaotic platform with an agenda.

Same with National Geographic and Readers Digest.

[JudgemAll]

Facebook uses this fraud to verify the veracity of their thread wandering trolls? Facebook policy of not indentifying harrassing trolls vs genuine thread makers aside, it explains a lot of their stupid choices

Do not rely on Facebook to feel acceptable in society... oh lord, many do unfortunately

[Vince Ferrer]

Hey, that’s another half million down the drain for progressives.

[jonrick46]

David and Barbara Mikkelson . . .

. . . "Gee! Something stinks!"

Maybe it's David:

David and Barbara Mikkelson founded Snopes' in 1995. They divorced in 2015, and now Barbara Mikkelson claims that David embezzled $98,000 from Snopes' bank account to spend on prostitutes and himself, according to the Daily Mail.

David has since remarried, to Elyssa Young, who has also been known as Eryn O’Bryn, a professional escort and porn actress.

David Mikkelson with new wife Elyssa Young. This proves that Snopes lacks credibility and should not be fact checker for anything let alone Facebook.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Ah yes, how many hours I wasted back then on usenet, arguing politics & religion. As well as arguing the merits of text editors & OS's (but I repeat myself).

I used to use the unix "news" program from a command line in the early 80s, and then "tin" replaced it some time in the early 90s with a superior hierarchic UI. Of course, its market share of internet social networking declined once "MOSAIC" and its companion NCSA server came out.

Web search engines like yahoo & altavista were so much faster at finding things then the old usenet way of "go subscribe to these dozen newsgroups, find the official FAQ for each one, and grep through them all for what you want".

Back then we all had email addresses that gave the pathway from your nearest server to ihnp4 (Bell's best-known email backbone node = "Indian Hills Network Processor 4"). So the email looked something like: hpcnd!hpccc!hplabs!ihnp4!.......

[Jeff Chandler]

Is this true? I’ll have to find some place to find out.

[SaveFerris]

ping

[Samurai_Jack]

Angels never know it’s time
to close the book and gracefully decline,
the song has found a tale.
My what a jealous pool is she.

The face in the water looks up
and shakes her head as if to say
that it’s the last time you’ll look like today.

[elcid1970]

Snopes is as pro-Muslim as islamicity.com. Hope they both fold. Death to jihad!

[\/\/ayne]

What a breakthrough! Now liberals can fund their own brainwashing!

[Rockitz]

Die Snopes, Die! These @sshats have been Clinton apologists forever.

[Leep]

I thought the main reason you “dated” prostitutes, and the like, was for sex without any commitment.
Why would you marry one?

[DouglasKC]

Yeah they really lost all credibility when they decided to come down on the side of leftists.