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Snopes On Verge Of Collapse After Founder Is Accused Of Fraud, Lies, and Prostitutes
The Daily Mail ^ | 07/26/17 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 09/07/2017 6:04:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Fact-checking' website Snopes is asking its users for help in a GoFundMe saying an 'outside vendor' is 'holding it hostage' 

Fact-checking website Snopes is on the verge of financial collapse after its owner was accused of embezzling company funds to pay for his contentious divorce battle and lavish overseas trips with his new wife, a former Las Vegas escort and porn actress.

The company's financial woes have gotten so bad that Snopes' owner David Mikkelson started a crowd-funding website pleading for donations this week, which raised over $500,000 from generous readers in its first day.

But DailyMail.com can disclose significant facts which are entirely missing from the fact-checking website's version of events - including the fraud allegations against Mikkeslon.

Snopes.com was started by David Mikkelson and his ex-wife Barbara in the mid-1990s as a website that debunked myths and urban legends.

In recent years, it has started to delve into the area of politics and 'fact-checking' so-called 'fake news' stories.


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: collapse; cultureofcorruption; divorce; factcheck; factchecker; fraud; lies; snopes
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To: Grampa Dave
Liberals, when they try run any business based on liberal values, end up Ruining Any Business with their liberal values...

Liberals are a parasite that kills the host.

41 posted on 09/07/2017 11:20:02 AM PDT by gogeo (Trump appears to be working 18 hours per day while congress canÂ’t seem to get in 18 hours per week.)
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To: Drew68

Dude looks like Jenner just before the stories started to leak about his “transition”.


42 posted on 09/07/2017 11:21:17 AM PDT by riri
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To: gogeo
Excellent reality summary:

Liberals are a parasite that kills the host.

43 posted on 09/07/2017 11:57:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: pgkdan

The $500,000 probably is in the same offshore bank as George Cloony’s $1,000,000 that he gave the Southern Poverty Law Center.


44 posted on 09/07/2017 12:52:49 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: pgkdan
I wonder if he invited any of the prostitutes on his honeymoon?

His new wife is a porn actress.

45 posted on 09/07/2017 1:54:00 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: wastoute
In cases like this one wonders if there aren’t “other attributes”, like maybe she can suck the husk off a coconut.

We always used to say "suck-start a school bus." Same idea. :-)

46 posted on 09/07/2017 1:56:04 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: DuncanWaring

Dammit! You beat me to it ...


47 posted on 09/07/2017 2:06:46 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: DuncanWaring

Oddly enough, I heard the “Sake and Jo-Sans” version before the traditional one ... Dad has quite the repertoire of horrid songs. He taught me that, along with “Blood On The Risers” and several others when I was but a wee lad.


48 posted on 09/07/2017 2:10:23 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Enlightened1


and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

49 posted on 09/07/2017 5:20:05 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: NorthMountain

Gotta be quick...


50 posted on 09/07/2017 6:30:55 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: NorthMountain

My dad had a lot of Oscar Brand albums; heard it quite frequently.


51 posted on 09/07/2017 6:32:09 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Enlightened1; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale
"Snopes On Verge Of Collapse After Founder Is Accused Of Fraud, Lies, and Prostitutes"

Well, if you're gonna go, go out with a bang.

52 posted on 09/07/2017 11:35:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

What inaccuracies have they posted that make them hated here?


53 posted on 09/08/2017 2:22:16 PM PDT by Impy (Anyone who votes to raise taxes deserves to get rabies.)
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To: Impy

It’s that politically related that was right-leaning they called a falsehood. I’m not going to look up that nonsense now for examples. I’ve never taken them seriously, anyhow, since I never saw how they became accredited except from other people on the internet, “Snopes said... Snopes said...”


54 posted on 09/09/2017 1:49:39 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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