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Even Snopes itself warns against false authority. I strongly suspect that a few lawyers have paid visits to the Snopes office over the years; the most glaring example is the Little Mermaid video cover. They take the most half-assed excuse I've ever heard and repeat what the artist told them as truth when saying otherwise could have gotten him in a lot of trouble. Sure, not all of the legend is true (he wasn't about to be fired,) but concluding that if he denied intentionally drawing an obscene image on a kids' video he must be telling the truth is foolish. There are a few others on the site that stick out as having been done at lawsuit-point, but I don't remember them off the top of my head.
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