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 ...

Over LeBron James' 22-year career, the star National Basketball Association player became the world's sixth-highest-paid athlete, according to Forbes in May 2025. But the Los Angeles Lakers' power ...

Mike Johnson has been speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives since October 2023, following other Republicans' multiple failed bids for leadership and a contentious nomination process. In a ...

A rumor that circulated online in August 2025 claimed MSNBC TV host Rachel Maddow launched her own newsroom in the summer of 2025, and that fellow U.S. progressive voices including CBS late-night host ...

An image shared on social media in September 2025 authentically showed U.S. President Donald Trump with a puffy face. California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office shared (archived) the purported image ...

As reports of a sprawling tax fraud scheme by members of Minnesota's Somali community multiplied in late December 2025, a ...

As U.S. Health Secretary and longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced he would reform the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) to weaken or remove liability protections ...

Snopes reporters have worked to dispel several of these claims, many of them centered around the longstanding and thoroughly debunked rumor that vaccines cause autism. For example, we determined that ...

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 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 ...