Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopestionary, 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. The red ...

Columnist Byron York commits the “proof by example” fallacy in his Aug. 23 column. He uses a single case to generalize. Yes, the ability of a Peruvian murderer to enter the country and live here ...