Snopes, in Heated Legal Battle, Asks Readers for Money to Survive

I hope they don't survive.

1 posted on 07/24/2017 4:25:17 PM PDT by tje

Snopes: Where CNN goes to confirm the veracity of their rumors

2 posted on 07/24/2017 4:26:11 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)

They own their failure.

3 posted on 07/24/2017 4:26:34 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)

4 posted on 07/24/2017 4:26:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)

5 posted on 07/24/2017 4:27:24 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)

This has been debunked on snopes.

6 posted on 07/24/2017 4:27:44 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)

Definitely does not correct errors in their reporting with regard to conservative news. Bias reporting slanted toward liberal views. Not my go to for “the truth”. I tried it out in earlier years because people were sending me Snopes links in their e-mails to me.

I’m sure the liberal scallywags will fund it without blinking an eye.

7 posted on 07/24/2017 4:30:33 PM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)

What we really need is a snopes for snopes.

8 posted on 07/24/2017 4:30:48 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)

9 posted on 07/24/2017 4:31:00 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)

10 posted on 07/24/2017 4:32:04 PM PDT by Fungi (Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)

From Dec, 2016

Facebook has announced plans to check for ‘fake news’ using a series of organizations to assess whether stories are true

One of them is a website called Snopes.com which claims to be one of the web’s ‘essential resources’ and ‘painstaking, scholarly and reliable’

It was founded by husband-and-wife Barbara and David Mikkelson, who used a letterhead claiming they were a non-existent society to start their research

Now they are divorced - with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on ‘himself and prostitutes’

In a lengthy and bitter legal dispute he is claiming to be underpaid and demanding ‘industry standard’ or at least $360,000 a year

The two also dispute what are basic facts of their case - despite Snopes.com saying its ‘ownership’ is committed to ‘accuracy and impartiality’

Snopes.com founder David Mikkelson’s new wife Elyssa Young is employed by the website as an administrator

She has worked as an escort and porn actress and despite claims website is non-political ran as a Libertarian for Congress on a ‘Dump Bush’ platform

Its main ‘fact checker’ is Kimberly LaCapria, whose blog ‘ViceVixen’ says she is in touch with her ‘domme side’ and has posted on Snopes.com while smoking pot

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4042194/Facebook-fact-checker-arbitrate-fake-news-accused-defrauding-website-pay-prostitutes-staff-includes-escort-porn-star-Vice-Vixen-domme.html

11 posted on 07/24/2017 4:32:30 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)

Jeez, the DNC is flat out of money, too bad.

12 posted on 07/24/2017 4:32:43 PM PDT by batterycommander (I learned my Artillery skills from the United States Marines. USNA 65)

13 posted on 07/24/2017 4:33:07 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))

14 posted on 07/24/2017 4:33:14 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)

Fakebook was using them to factcheck news. They weren’t seeing any of Zuckerschmuck’s billions?

15 posted on 07/24/2017 4:33:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)

Good riddance. Die, Snopes.

16 posted on 07/24/2017 4:34:19 PM PDT by MarMema

To: batterycommander

Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea are broke too.

17 posted on 07/24/2017 4:35:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)

18 posted on 07/24/2017 4:36:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)

After they fail, they can lie and say that they are still in business and still lying for liberal $’s!

19 posted on 07/24/2017 4:41:09 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!)

The pussy cat standing on top of the couch is the only honorable member of the team.

20 posted on 07/24/2017 4:42:27 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)

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