Lies, lies and more lies. Out of an old Tacoma house, fact-checking site Snopes uncovers them


David Mikkelson, founder of Snopes, the site that tracks fakery on the web, in his home office in a nearly 100-year old home in Tacoma, Wash. on Sept. 25, 2018. (Greg Gilbert/Seattle Times/TNS)

TACOMA, Washington: Here, in a 97-year-old frame house in the city’s North End, is the headquarters of America’s most popular hoax-debunking website. 

The command centre for Snopes.com is an upstairs bedroom with shelving and a laptop placed atop some books and a cardboard box. 

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