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Snopes founder David Mikkelson talks about 25 years of fact checking

Snopes started as an interest in urban legends and has turned into one of the most reliable fact-checking tools.
Snopes founder David Mikkelson

Seattle — In a world struggling with fake news, Snopes is a great resource to use when you want to verify something.

David Mikkelson started Snopes as a way to look up urban legends. The website is now used by scholars, journalists and students to fact-check and do research.

We had David on the show to celebrate the website's 25th anniversary.

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