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Who runs Snopes, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest fact-checking alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Snopes

Snopes snopes.com

The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

Wikidata: fact-checking website

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Snopes tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

18 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
4 tools

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Snopes

Fewer trackers than SnopesNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Snopes match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Snopes adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

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Sites searched
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Vector
384-d
Query
40 ms

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