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Snopes-tionary: What is ‘Scarelore’?
Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Oct 5, 2022
There are many names for urban legends on the internet.
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Snopestionary: What Is Confirmation Bias?
Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Jul 27, 2022
Just because we want something to be true doesn’t make it so.
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Snopestionary: What Is Sponsored Content?
Written by:
Jordan Liles
Jul 19, 2022
Also called "native advertising," it can be as innocent as a restaurant ad on your newsfeed, or ...
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Snopestionary: What Is an Echo Chamber?
Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Jun 24, 2022
Both in person and online, echo chambers reinforce our own viewpoints and hinder our ability to ...
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Snopestionary: The 'Straw Man' Logical Fallacy
Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Jun 14, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
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Snopestionary: The 'Red Herring' Logical Fallacy
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Jun 10, 2022
This logical fallacy is sometimes referred to as the fallacy of distraction.
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Snopestionary: The 'Slippery Slope' Logical Fallacy
Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
May 31, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
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Snopestionary: The 'Ad Hominem' Logical Fallacy
Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
May 26, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
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Snopestionary: What Was 'Gamergate'?
Written by:
David Emery
Apr 4, 2022
"Gamergate" is considered by many to have been a watershed event in the ascendancy of extremist ...
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Snopestionary: What Is 'Troll Bait'?
Written by:
Snopes Staff
Jan 8, 2022
A quick primer on troll bait and why you shouldn't take it.
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Snopestionary: Misinformation vs. Disinformation
Written by:
Snopes Staff
Dec 26, 2021
Both words refer to false information, but one type is more insidious than the other.
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Snopestionary: What Does 'Shadow-Ban' Mean?
Written by:
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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Snopestionary: What Is a False Premise?
Written by:
Bond Huberman
Sep 24, 2021
All it takes is one false premise to make a logical argument unsound.
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Snopestionary: What Is Copypasta?
Written by:
Bond Huberman
David Emery
Sep 19, 2021
Before there was "sharing" — before there was even social media — there was copying and pasting ...
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Snopestionary: What Is 'Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior'?
Written by:
Bond Huberman
David Emery
Sep 4, 2021
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have taken steps to bar such behavior by users.
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Snopestionary: What Does 'Glurge' Mean?
Written by:
Bond Huberman
David Emery
Aug 21, 2021
The term "glurge" has been with us since the mid-1990s.
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Yes, 'There's Always a Tweet' — but Sometimes, It's Fake
Written by:
Brandon Echter
Aug 5, 2021
Reader beware!
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Snopestionary: What Is a 'Misinformation Ouroboros'?
Written by:
Bond Huberman
Jul 28, 2021
The image of a snake eating its own tail is a metaphor at least as ancient as the tomb of Tutank ...
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Snopestionary: What Is the 'Mandela Effect'?
Written by:
David Emery
Jul 24, 2016
The Mandela Effect is a collective misremembering of a fact or event. Various theories have been ...
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