Story on “All Things Considered” about Snopes.com
You’d think it would take an army to truth-squad the rumors on the Web, but you’d be wrong.
Full piece here
In the story in mentions that the Mikkelsons have their own personal library they use for fact checking and I bet they use local library resources but I have always thought that it would have been nice if the library community would have been the original creators of a site like Snopes. Maybe it is not to late for the library world to be involved in something like this. There is the old adage that there is always room at the top. (Don’t check that at Snopes)
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