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The Dive Team

You can learn a lot beneath the surface.

Snopes Staff

Published Aug. 16, 2019

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Was El Paso One of the 'Most Dangerous Cities' in U.S. Before a Border Fence Was Built?

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Disguising Hate: How Radical Evangelicals Spread Anti-Islamic Vitriol on Facebook

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'The Ladder Down to Hell': How Social Media Breeds Hate Speech

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Did Trump Administration 'Purge' 200,000 VA Health Care Applications?

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Hiding in Plain Sight: PAC-Connected Activists Set Up 'Local News' Outlets

March 4, 2019 Star News Digital Media, Inc. may look like a media company that produces local news, but a Snop ...

Did Louis Vuitton Sponsor 'Human Zoos' in the 1800s and Early 1900s?

March 15, 2019 Though they weren't typically billed as such, 'human zoos' were unfortunately a thing during the ...

Was Wall Street Originally the Site of a 'Border Wall' Meant to Protect New Amsterdam?

Jan. 15, 2019 Social media memes compared a defensive wall built along the northern border of New Amsterdam du ...

Media Firm “Providr” Allegedly Owes Money to Several Angry Facebook Publishers

July 17, 2018 The company gained prominence by asserting they were compliant with Facebook’s rules at a time w ...

'Content Providers' Easily Find Ways Around Facebook's Rules

May 26, 2018 In March 2018, Facebook changed their policies regarding branded content, leaving many publisher ...

Misinfluencers, Inc.: How Fake News Is Reaching Millions Using Verified Facebook Accounts

Sept. 29, 2017 We tracked 29 fake domains that post to verified celebrity pages through an unknown mechanism. H ...

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