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Snopes is 94% of the way to its 2026 membership goal

An update for Snopes members.

February 18, 2026

Snopes is 94% of the way to its 2026 membership goal

We are barely into the year, and we have already grown our total number of subscribers by over 50%, with 5,000 new members joining us in the last six weeks. That’s an amazing testament to the need for fact-checking in this critical time.

We are estimating we need to maintain 15,000 paying members to break even this year, and we are now above 14,000.

Last year, it became clear that Snopes could not continue covering expenses by relying solely on ad revenue in this new digital age — with quick AI answers and social media platforms shunning fact checkers and sending less traffic to publisher websites.

Keep Snopes Debunking

We need your continued support to continue our fact-finding mission.

 

Once we get to a break-even point, we can start thinking about the future and how we can expand Snopes to tackle even more misinformation.

P.S. In case you missed the last update, we launched our Tips Dashboard. Hundreds of members have already rated a topic they think we should fact-check. Next, we are working on a notification system so that members get an alert when we publish a fact check that they wanted us to cover.

-- Chris Richmond, Snopes CEO

 

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