Ben Stroud
From time to time, you get a story, picture or update in your inbox or news feed that you think may not be entirely true. Want to fact check it? Here's a list of sites you can use. Remember, you may never beat an internet hoax, but you can correct the people you know that share them - POLITELY of course.
Happy myth-busting!
The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation
Hoax Busters has been debunking hoaxes, scams and urban legends since 1999. This is an alphabetical list of Internet hoaxes, scams and e-mail chain letters. If it's on the list, it's a hoax.
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Hoax List from About.com: Current Internet hoaxes, email rumors and urban legends debunked - your resource for information on all the latest misinformation on the Net.
Unfortunately, as we hear every single day, being smart is NOT enough to protect yourself from dangerous Internet scams, frustrating spam, or devious identity theft
THE starting place for exploring urban legends and folklore on the Web: Internet hoaxes, rumors, myths, fallacies, urban legends and urban myths debunked.
Complete Wikilist of Internet hoaxes
Want to know what all of those annoying 'copy and paste' status updates are called? Well, here you go. You're welcome.
PS: They are also called 'C*ntpastes'
Information about hoaxes that Facebook is currently aware of.
200 Stupid Facebook Status Updates
A public service pedantry hub. Run by @flashboy, who sometimes retweets stuff without fact-checking.
