#250: Snopes explain

[Two Cueballs sit at a table across from each other, typing on their laptops.]

Cueball: Another urban legend? You should check out Snopes before sending me this stuff.

Friend: Oops; yeah.

Cueball: Man, Snopes is really great–independent fact-checkers trawling our collective discourse, filtering out misinformation.

[The Cueballs are still sitting at the table across from each other, looking at each other.]

Friend: Yeah, but they have their dark side. The couple that runs snopes.com also runs a network of spam servers that start many of those forwarded stories in the first place, ensuring they’ll always have business.

[Cueball on the left is typing on his laptop, while the second Cueball is sitting, stunned.]

Cueball: That’s absurd. Plus, it’s definitely not true–it was debunked by…

Friend: Yes?

Cueball: …Oh my God.