Thanks to you, we’ve fought off these lawsuits, winning every major ruling the court has adjudicated to date. (In one of our many legal victories to date, the court tossed out their defamation claims.)
Over the last four years, they’ve filed lawsuit after lawsuit to silence us and bleed us dry - including suing us for defamation for telling you, the public, about this case. We take every topic seriously - a suspect photograph of a cute animal gets the same critical eye as a questionable quote from the president of the United States, because the truth is important no matter what the context.īut like many valuable resources, faces threats that jeopardize its very existence.īack in 2017, we fought off a takeover attempt by hostile shareholders. We’ve fact-checked everything from questionable email forwards to insidious anti-vaccine misinformation to weird web history to weaponized propaganda.
With nearly 30 years of fact checks, hoaxes, rumors, and true stories in our archives, the history of is also the history of internet culture itself.
