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Snopestionary: What Is 'Troll Bait'?

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Snopes Staff
Jan. 8, 2022 A quick primer on troll bait and why you shouldn't take it.
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Snopes Tips: How To Avoid Ad Arbitrage Clickbait

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Jordan Liles
Jan. 2, 2022 "Ad arbitrage" is when website owners create stories that are broken up into multiple pages, pla ...
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Snopestionary: Misinformation vs. Disinformation

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Snopes Staff
Dec. 26, 2021 Both words refer to false information, but one type is more insidious than the other.
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Snopes Tips: How to Spot Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior

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Jordan Liles
Dec. 18, 2021 People and groups sometimes hide their identities on social media in order to mislead and/or inf ...
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Snopes Tips: Honing Your Search Skills

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Snopes Staff
Dec. 12, 2021 How to harness the power of search engines to find the information you want.
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Snopestionary: What Does 'Shadow-Ban' Mean?

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Snopes Staff
Dec. 11, 2021 Sometimes the reason no one seems to be reading your social media posts is that a platform has h ...
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Snopes Tips: Identifying the 'Right' Results in a Search Engine

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Snopes Staff
Nov. 27, 2021 Vigilance is the order of the day.
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4 Quick Tips for Avoiding Misinformation in a Pandemic

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Snopes Staff
Nov. 18, 2021 Making sure to not spread misinformation during COVID-19 is a responsibility we all share.
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Snopestionary: What Is a False Premise?

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Bond Huberman
Sept. 24, 2021 All it takes is one false premise to make a logical argument unsound.
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Snopestionary: What Is Copypasta?

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Bond Huberman David Emery
Sept. 19, 2021 Before there was "sharing" — before there was even social media — there was copying and pasting ...
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Snopestionary: What Is the 'Mandela Effect'?

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David Emery
July 24, 2016 The Mandela Effect is a collective misremembering of a fact or event. Various theories have been ...
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