Does everyone know snopes, the urban legend Web site ? It’s indispensable if you want to fact-check the latest e-mail someone sent you about some deadly new disease, health hazard, crime wave, etc.
Twice in the past month a couple of my friends have sent me an email about a new trend in crime (e.g., fruit-flavored crystal meth to get schoolchildren hooked!) including an assurance that snopes has already verified the facts. If they’d checked snopes before sending out the mass e-mail, both of them would have found snopes did not, in fact, confirm the e-mails.
I suspect we’ll see many more Proven By Snopes e-mails in the years ahead.

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