Is Snopes biased?
The rating organisations do not give Snopes one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
The short answers
Is Snopes biased?
The rating organisations do not give Snopes one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Snopes left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Snopes one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Snopes reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Snopes are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Snopes.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States
- Official site
- snopes.com
- Seen publishing on
- snopes.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story Snopes appeared on. It has a page here because it turned up in the coverage of a story we were reading, which happens well before we have written anything it is part of. Measured 6 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
None yet. This fills in as Snopes appears on stories we publish, and each entry links both to the outlet’s own report and to ours.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Snopes, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.