Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopes-tionary, where we'll define a term or piece of fact-checking lingo that we use on the Snopes team. Have a term you want us to explain? Let us know. Also known ...

Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning that tend to be more persuasive than they really are, and are based on poor or faulty logic. Indeed, changing ...

It has been suggested that approximately five exabytes (i.e. about 5,000,000,000 pickup truck beds full of information typed on paper) of data are created each day. What is tougher to decipher is how ...

Have you ever walked away from a heated discussion feeling like something was off, but couldn’t quite put your finger on what? That nagging sensation might be your ...

Among the many things worth studying, one of the most interesting is what I call ‘philosophical folklore’. Folklore, of course, consists of micro-traditions passed down within communities as part of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Narcissists rely on these five ‘logical fallacies’ like a ...

The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be “sheep” and not to let themselves be told ...