Snopes

Summary

Snopes is a website^[1]. Snopes ranks in the top 3% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (582 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Snopes is in the country of United States^[3].
• Snopes's instance of is recorded as website^[4].
• Snopes's instance of is recorded as fact-checker^[5].
• Snopes's instance of is recorded as organization^[6].
• Snopes's founder is recorded as David Mikkelson^[7].
• Snopes's owned by is recorded as Chris Richmond^[8].
• Snopes's owned by is recorded as Drew Schoentrup^[9].
• Snopes's logo image is recorded as Snopes logo.svg^[10].
• Snopes's headquarters location is recorded as Tacoma^[11].
• Snopes's location is recorded as Tacoma^[12].
• Snopes's review score is recorded as 1.7/5 (Bad)^[13].
• +1994-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Snopes^[14].
• Snopes's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02dkt6^[15].
• Snopes's official website is recorded as https://www.snopes.com/^[16].
• Snopes's web feed URL is recorded as https://www.snopes.com/feed/^[17].
• Snopes's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+2421'}^[18].
• Snopes's main Wikidata property is recorded as P13541^[19].
• Snopes's X is recorded as snopes^[20].
• Snopes's X is recorded as SnopesVideo^[21].
• Snopes's Facebook username is recorded as snopes^[22].
• Snopes's LittleSis organization ID is recorded as 268073^[23].
• Snopes's Quora topic ID is recorded as Snopes^[24].
• Snopes's subreddit is recorded as snopes^[25].
• Snopes's Mastodon address is recorded as [email protected]^[26].
• Snopes's Trustpilot company ID is recorded as snopes.com^[27].

Body

Founding

Snopes's founder is recorded as David Mikkelson^[7]. +1994-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Snopes^[14].

Operations

Snopes's headquarters location is recorded as Tacoma^[11].

Ownership

Owners include Chris Richmond^[8], a businessperson^[28], b. 1986^[29], of United States^[30] and Drew Schoentrup^[9].

Why It Matters

Snopes ranks in the top 3% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (582 views/month).^[2] Snopes has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[31] Snopes is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[32]