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Lol yeah I wasn't sure about either it until I saw the publish date, that's why I specified the year. Not sure when it got bad but anything like pre-2010 seems likely aligned with their original purpose of debunking urban legends, and the older the better
That seems about right. It was bad in the years just before Trump 1.0. I remember trying to use it for r/PoliticalHumor. I wanted a simple quote that said in effect "No - the Nazi party wasn't socialist. And here's why..." The Snopes article was ridiculously large. Don't remember how long it was. ~2,000+ words? I kept scrolling down and down and down. Finally the very last two paragraphs were pretty good so I shared them. Snopes did that for any simple situation. You'd have to scroll and scroll to maybe find anything good.
Then it started to turn to shit pretty quickly after Trump 1.0 started. Fact checking™ became a liberal thought terminating cliché and Snopes had a lot of competition for ad revenue from WaPo, Politifact, etc.