Articles about Snopes.com

We're flattered that so many people have come to appreciate our modest efforts over the years. We were honored to see our site selected as the winners of two Webby Awards for web excellence in 2007, and we're proud that many different major news organizations have profiled us and our work over the years and continue to regularly cite us as a reliable and accurate source of information.

Below are links to some of the major news outlets that have profiled us and our site over the years:

• "Where Fake News Goes to Die"
  CNN, 10 March 2017
• "Debunking Fake News and Hoax Stories"
  CNN, 14 December 2016
• "An Interview with the Editor of Snopes"
  The Washington Post, 17 December 2015
• "Meet the Mysterious Creator of Rumor-Debunking Site Snopes.com"
  io9, 16 November 2014
• "So Who's Checking the Fact-Finders? We Are"
  The Florida Times-Union, 29 September 2012
• "At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light"
  The New York Times, 15 July 2010
• "At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online"
  The New York Times, 4 April 2010
• "Site Busts the Web's Biggest Myths"
  NPR, 20 March 2010
• "Rumor Detectives: True Story or Online Hoax?"
  Reader's Digest, April 2009
• "Snopes.com"
  FactCheck, April 2009
• "Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: Snopes.com Gets an 'A'"
  Network World, 13 April 2009
• "Too Good To Be True? It Usually Is"
  Washington Post, 28 September 2008
• "Snopes: The Website That Explodes Urban Myths"
  The Guardian, 16 June 2008
• "Snopes.com: Debunking Myths in Cyberspace"
  NPR, 27 August 2005
• "Interview with David Mikkelson"
  CNN Sunday Morning, 2 May 2004
• "Rumors Put Through Mill"
  Los Angeles Times, 22 August 2004
• "Don't Believe Everything You Read Online"
  BBC News, 15 August 2003
• "For Snopes.com, Debunking the Bambi Hoax Was All in a Day's Work"
  Online Journalism Review, 31 July 2003
• "Urban Legends Reference Pages"
  The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2003
• "Web Site Separates Fact from Urban Legend"
  Hollywood Reporter, 7 September 2002
• "True and Untrue Urban Legends"
  ABC News, 19 February 2002
• "The Rumor Busters"
  Salon, 31 October 2001
• "Hear the Rumor? Nostradamus and Other Tall Tales"
  CNN, 3 October 2001
• "Terrorist Urban Legends"
  NPR, 26 September 2001
• "Internet Spreads Myths, and Debunks Them Too"
  Chicago Tribune, 6 August 1998
• "Site-Seeing — 'The Urban Legends Reference Pages'"
  The Seattle Times, 3 May 1998
• "What Debunks a Legend Most? Research"
  Los Angeles Times, 6 October 1997
• "Only Connect: Urban Legends Reference Pages"
  The New Yorker, 6 October 1997