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Much of our output here at snopes.com is debunkings of satire, fake news, and April Fool's jokes, so it's not surprising that we've often been the subject of the same type of material. Unfortunately, that material has been generally unimaginative and samey, typically some jape claiming we've been arrested or raided or debunked (or even debunked ourselves). A case in point was a 29 March 2008 (note that date, which falls just before April Fool's day) article from satirical site The Daily Squib reporting that our Los Angeles offices had been raided by the FBI: The Daily Squib's footer describing the publication as a curious satirical newspaper offering spoof news should be enough for anyone to know the above-referenced article is just a joke. If not, consider that the work we do here at snopes.com has been profiled by such national (and international) news sources as CNN, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the BBC. If we had been raided, arrested, shut down by the government, or anything similar, you'd be hearing about if from those news sites, not reading about it on some guy's blog or a single obscure web site.
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