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This interesting online authority covers the latest health trends, celebrity news, current news, and email scams. There is a “hot list” of currently popular topics, or peruse Snopes archives for those urban legends. It is possible to check the tweets from the most recent political debate and conduct topical fact checking on your own. To use this reference source, type the subject of interest in the search box on the website. The entries are labeled as fact check or news. When you click on a fact check entry, you see a green arrow for true (or mostly true) or a red x indicating the misinformation is false with the article. Snopes also indicates which parts of a rumor are mostly true or not.
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