# What's the 'dope on Snopes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dope-on-snopes/494212>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dope-on-snopes/494212 "2009-04-24T13:57:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dope-on-snopes/494212/161 "2009-04-28T16:03:48Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> My very right-wing uncle is now checking snopes on the many right-wing emails he receives.

You are very lucky. I’ve Snoped my BIL a thousand times and he won’t look at the article, let alone the cites.

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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dope-on-snopes/494212/162 "2009-04-29T00:25:55Z")

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> [@ambushed](#):
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> I eagerly await the return of the wisely skeptical author of post #51. Come back, **squeegee**! We need your guidance!

Jesus H., **ambushed** , there’s no way in hell I’m going to answer the novellas you call posts.

Let me just say this: we all make choices every day on what information we find credible, and what we do not. I chose to believe that web site as credible, you did not. My choice was correct. You chose otherwise, and you were wrong. Everything else is hand waving.

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**Author:** ![dujo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dujo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dujo)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dope-on-snopes/494212/163 "2009-04-29T19:58:05Z")

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I’ve read Snopes for years and enjoy it a lot, particularly the glurge stuff. The pop-ups are pretty awful and I’m pretty sure that the last time I visited, which was several months ago, I got infected with a fairly annoying fake-virus-scan autodownloading malware. Now it could be I got it somewhere else but after the Zango thing last year I figure it was from them, has anyone else experienced or heard about this?

I’d like to know that if this actually was from one of their pop-ups that they’ve addressed the issue and that it’s safe to go back there.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dope-on-snopes/494212/164 "2009-04-29T23:25:57Z")

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> [@dujo](#):
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> I’ve read Snopes for years and enjoy it a lot, particularly the glurge stuff. The pop-ups are pretty awful and I’m pretty sure that the last time I visited, which was several months ago, I got infected with a fairly annoying fake-virus-scan autodownloading malware. Now it could be I got it somewhere else but after the Zango thing last year I figure it was from them, has anyone else experienced or heard about this?
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> I’d like to know that if this actually was from one of their pop-ups that they’ve addressed the issue and that it’s safe to go back there.

My Kaspersky has made some screaming when I visited Snopes in the past, but nary a quibble since the Zango embroglio. Maybe they learned their lesson.:dubious:

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