Snopes Creator Readies New Website
Our headline reflects one of the many informative tidbits to be found in a recent interview of Snopes creator David Mikkelson by io9 contributor Cheryl Eddy. Another is how exactly the site owes its name to the work of William Faulkner.
Mikkelson has been involved with the general topic of urban legends since the earliest days of the Internet. He chuckles in the conversation about his anonymous fame and notes just how accelerated the spread of unverified info has become:
“It used to be, say, for a picture or video to go viral, people would forward it to each other by email, and it took weeks for it to build up.
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