Snopes grew from urban-legend encyclopedia into leading political fact checker

Evidence

Snopes.com describes itself as the “the internet’s go-to source for discerning what is true and what is total nonsense”, and at least for the English-speaking world, this immodest self-assessment is probably true. Founded back in the mid-1990s as an online encyclopedia for urban legends, the portal has become the most important American fact checker, especially for political fake news, even before the Trump era. The site, which is still run by its founder as a private company, has repeatedly been certified by other organizations as having great objectivity and political neutrality. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 862