Using Snopes as an authority is laughable. According to independent investigative reporter Wayne Madsen, "The so-called 'fact-checking' authentication website Snopes.com is the go-to website for CIA propaganda."

From Madsen's for-subscribers-only report of Oct. 7, 2016, "Snopes.com: the latest CIA addition to Internet disinformation":

"On April 19, 2016, WMR reported: […] 'Snopes.com is run by a California couple named Barbara and David Mikkelson, who founded the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society . . . The Mikkelsons chose the name Snopes because it is the name of a fictional family featured in William Faulkner's novels that includes a pedophile, a murderer, a bigamist, a corrupt racist politician, and a thief who live in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. The idea is to label all those targeted by the Mikkelsons as candidates for membership in the Snopes family. […]'