Snopes operates as a politically partisan organization that suppresses information favorable to the Obama administration.
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Q: Is Snopes.com run by “very Democratic” proprietors? Did they lie to discredit a State Farm insurance agent who attacked Obama?
A: A chain e-mail that “exposed” Snopes contains falsehoods. And in fact, the site is run by someone who has no political party affiliation and his non-voting Canadian wife. A State Farm spokeswoman confirms what they reported about the Obama-baiting agent.
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Chain e-mail: “Snopes” Exposed
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 2:29am
For the past few years snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the ‘tell-all final word’ on any comment, claim and email.
But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com.
Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it – kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know.
It is run by a husband and wife team – that’s right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It’s just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.
David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started
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# No, Snopes Wasn't 'BUSTED' for CEO's Supposed Ties to George Soros
## A meme about Snopes.com has been debunked by the very source it cites.
### Brooke Binkowski
### Published Feb. 17, 2018
Updated Feb. 18, 2018
Claim:
Snopes.com is an extremely liberal site with an agenda to discredit conservatives, paid for either by George Soros or the Clintons, or maybe Facebook.
Rating:
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In February 2018, a years-old rumor about us spawned yet another low-effort, extremely inconsistent meme:
We are unable to tell whether this meme was created initially as a joke or whether it was belched out from the bowels of a propaganda site, but it is hitting our sitemail with enough regularity that we decided to address it.
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