"Amid a legal battle between its owners, the venerable online fact checker asks for donations to stay in business.

The fact-checking website Snopes issued a financial plea to its readers Monday to keep itself going. A GoFundMe donation page for Snopes shows a goal of $500,000 -- with $97,000 raised as of 12:30 p.m. PT.

Snopes.com was founded in 1994 and has been debunking urban myths and hoaxes since long before they were called fake news. The website is currently half owned by Proper Media and half by Snopes founder David Mikkelson, via his company Bardav.

In May, Proper Media filed a lawsuit with the California Superior Court in San Diego alleging that Bardav breached its contract. Since then, Proper Media hasn't allowed Snopes to run advertisements, the website's main source of revenue."
https://www.cnet.com/news/this...er-of-shutting-down/


Apparently, Mikkelson is accused of misappropriation of funds and gross mismanagement of the company. His ex-wife (and former partner) has been replaced by a younger Snopes employee who's previous career was as a porn actress and prostitute.

I'll bet the gofundme money will end up going to more hookers and blow

Guess Soros is running out of money

Daily Mail article from December:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ice-Vixen-domme.html

I am a little verklempt.

Has anyone run out this story through snopes to see if it's true?

Tony.

That makes me sad...the thought of (liberal)
Snopes going under...so sad...so bad (just kidding) fuck a bunch of Snopes!!!

The Snopes of today is nothing like the Snopes of old... and for the worse.

So the Snopes married couple founders were pulling a Goebbels on the American people, and were also not dealing honorably with each other?? What is the world coming to?

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Originally posted by lbj:
The Snopes of today is nothing like the Snopes of old... and for the worse.

Yep...pretty much this...gone are the days of "let me check this with "Snopes"....it just gone the way of the internets in general

They're over $260K now.
The donor list reads like the whos who of leftist shitbags.

Who is proper media? Would be my question.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
I am a little verklempt.

Weinen veil

Ich habe kein Geld für sozialistische Arschlöcher.

나는 사회주의 똥줄에 돈이 없다.

Love it.

After this, even if they managed to stay in the leftist propaganda business with that site, their reputation is ruined.

Why does there always seem to be a hooker or porn star somehow involved in these stories?

Snopes' only stock in trade was credibility which it exchanged for Leftism. These are the consequences. The site and those associated should go extinct.

I read a great blog today detailing just how connected to big business and the viability of what they report today. I wonder how prevalent this practice is for them

https://foodbabe.com/2017/02/2...monsanto-operatives/

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Originally posted by benny6:
Has anyone run out this story through snopes to see if it's true?

Tony.

Yes.

Snopes says that any Snopes about Snopes is not true.

Fuck Snopes. I hope they shut down and never come back!

Somewhere along the line they morphed from debunking stupid internet rumors to being a semi-official subsidiary of the Democrat party, rushing out every damn time Obama opened his lying pie hole to defend and explain away what he lied about and to ALWAYS find a GOP statement false, no matter what.

They can kiss my white conservative ass.

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Originally posted by parabellum:


Why does there always seem to be a hooker or porn star somehow involved in these stories?

I love it. Makes the story interesting.

David Mikkelson, that's one smarmy, punch-able face.