This collection of explainers, authored by Snopes fact-checkers, aims to help. Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theories our newsroom ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

While the questions themselves involve made-up arguments and the answer choices vary in wording, the flaws in the reasoning are often common logical fallacies studied since antiquity. For example ...

However, in your piece on ACORN you concluded with the following statement, “We’re accustomed to seeing logical fallacies in political arguments. But working two of them into a single argument ...