Merriam-Webster named 2025 the year of "slop" — low-quality media that's created with artificial-intelligence (AI) tools. Few people are more familiar with the genre of misinformation than Snopes ...

The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

As reports of a sprawling tax fraud scheme by members of Minnesota's Somali community multiplied in late December 2025, a rumor circulated online that the state's Democratic Gov. Tim Walz had granted ...

The Fake News is going wild because SOME JUDGE says my prosecutor wasn't 'properly appointed. Total nonsense. When it comes to people like Tish James and James Comey my VASSALS, quite frankly — I can ...

During a December 2025 appearance on live TV, actor Helen Mirren said she would invest $107 million in streaming service Netflix to "tear apart the fog that has hidden the truth for far too long.” ...

In mid-November 2025, a video circulating on social media claimed to show trail camera footage of Jacob Riley, a missing 3-year-old boy from Georgia, walking with a pack of wolves. Riley allegedly ...

In mid-November 2025, a photograph allegedly showing U.S. President Donald Trump kissing a young girl circulated on social media. The image spread online after U.S. House Democrats released thousands ...

As the cold and snow of winter approached many regions of the United States in November 2025, an image circulated online that purported to show a tree in Alaska encased in ice that formed a peculiar ...

A screenshot authentically showed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was running its official X account from Tel Aviv, Israel, shortly after a new feature on the social media platform ...

A rumor (archived) that circulated online in December 2025 claimed that a pair of trail camera photos authentically showed a mother bear and her cub rescuing a lost girl in Alaska. According to the ...

In late 2025, a rumor spread online that the Clinton Foundation — founded by former President Bill Clinton — lost its status as a tax-exempt charity after a U.S. Department of Defense audit found more ...