Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopes-tionary, where we’ll define a term or piece of fact-checking lingo that we use on the Snopes team. Have a term you want us to explain? Let us know. As its name ...

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in last week's posts, I laid out some examples, definitions, and general observations, and turned ...

In the registration-to-confiscation scenario, only the latter two mechanisms seem fairly plausible to me; in other scenarios, others may be more plausible. And there are of course mechanisms that may ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...

Blockchain analytics platform BlockSeer has launched the private beta version of a new Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool — Blockseer Mining Pool — that censors transactions from blacklisted wallets. The pool ...

The story of the slippery slope is about a dangerous path and finding it hard, if not impossible, to change course. Americans are weakened by reliance on unknown sources of information, rivers of ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into daily life, educators are wrestling with how best to use the technology in classrooms — the White House is ...

CHESTERFIELD, N.H. — Chesterfield voters will be asked on March 9 if they want to protect Spofford Lake with an ordinance that would prohibit development on slopes in the watershed that have a more ...

A March 12 letter suggests that UCSC students shouldn’t be allowed to vote on local issues in Santa Cruz. Apparently, some students “haven’t made the effort to educate themselves about candidates.” ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...