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Media Literacy

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Clearing the Frame: Seeing Through Disingenuous Captions

Written by: Dan Evon

April 15, 2022

Bird poop? Shaking hands with thin air? Captions can falsely frame shared content in politically ...

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Media Literacy: How to Spot T-Shirts Bearing Fabricated Messages

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 30, 2022

Sometimes, misinformation wears its heart on its sleeve.

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Red Flags: How to Identify Suspicious Rumors

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

March 28, 2022

For International Fact-Checking Day, we look at common techniques used to identify dubious stori ...

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Snopes Tips: A Guide To Performing Reverse Image Searches

Written by: Dan Evon

March 22, 2022

Knowing how to perform a reverse image search is vital for social media users.

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How to detect online scams and fraud

Snopes Tips: How To Detect and Avoid Online Scams

Written by: David Emery

Feb. 27, 2022

There are countless "exclusive reward," "free coupon," and "free product" scams on social media. ...

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How Snopes Monitors 'Virtue Signaling' on Social Media

Written by: Jessica Lee

Jan. 31, 2022

June 1 marks the beginning of Pride Month — and likely a flood of posts recognizing the celebrat ...

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Snopesing 101: How Snopes Fact Checks Racial Propaganda

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

Jan. 15, 2022

And how you, the reader, can do the same ...

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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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ad arbitrage scams

Snopes Tips: How To Avoid Ad Arbitrage Clickbait

Written by: 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

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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Snopes-ing 101: the Fact-Checkers' Toolbox

Written by: Snopes Staff

Dec. 20, 2021

Research tips and tricks from the fact-checkers at Snopes.

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Snopes Tips: How to Spot Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior

Written by: 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

Written by: Snopes Staff

Dec. 12, 2021

How to harness the power of search engines to find the information you want.

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What does shadow-banning mean

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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Snopes Tips: Identifying the 'Right' Results in a Search Engine

Written by: 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

Written by: 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?

Written by: 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?

Written by: 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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Berenstain Bears - Mandela Effect

Snopestionary: What Is the 'Mandela Effect'?

Written by: 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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