Posted on 07/25/2017 11:01:50 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
The bitter 2015 divorce of David and Barbara Mikkelson is the fuel that ignited the battle for the popular fact-checking Web site, Snopes, which is now resorting to a GoFundMe drive to keep it afloat.
The showdown takes on added gravity because the popular site, owned by Baday, is one of the outlets that Facebook turns to for verification of stories when it receives complaints of fake news.
Fans of Snopes have been responding in droves since Monday, when the company said that Proper Media — both tech partner and part-owner after buying Barbara’s shares in 2016 — has been withholding ad revenue.
David Mikkelson said the company was in danger of running out of money and asked for readers to help it raise $500,000.
By 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the GoFundMe site had already raised more than $530,000.
Proper Media, meanwhile, claims in a San Diego state court lawsuit that David Mikkelson is spending money wildly and should be removed as a director and officer.
“Mikkelson has for years been looting Bardav, to the detriment of its shareholders, first his ex-wife Barbara and now Proper Media,” the suit claims.
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$98K doesn't buy what it use to.
Yikes - the first Mrs Snopes is a mirror-shatterer.
What a breakthrough! Now liberals can fund their own brainwashing!
And an earth denter.
Die Snopes, Die! These @sshats have been Clinton apologists forever.
Not that we ever used Google or snopes for scholarly references in research, they both were discussed and recognized as a tainted source. The only value was perhaps inciting a rabbit trail for closer examination.
Davy boy likes ‘em big and corn-fed.
I thought the main reason you “dated” prostitutes, and the like, was for sex without any commitment.
Why would you marry one?
Yeah they really lost all credibility when they decided to come down on the side of leftists.
He left that big woman for that porn actress. Mmmm..What he do that fer? /KarlChilders
The porno girl was a pig. She might have had one piss poor film.
Exactly. He wants them with all the stuff under the hood in a car body nobody wants. A total control freak.
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