Snopes On Verge Of Collapse After Founder Is Accused Of Fraud, Lies, and Prostitutes

The Daily Mail ^ | 07/26/17 | Alana Goodman

[Enlightened1]

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

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• But the site which claims to be 'transparent' and to tell people the facts they need to know hasn't told those donating everything that is going on
• In fact it is at the center of a bitter legal battle with its CEO being accused of fraud, lies, conspiracy and putting prostitutes and his honeymoon on expenses
• David Mikkelson set up company which owns Snopes.com in 2003 with then wife Barbara but she sold her 50 per cent stake during bitter divorce
• Owners of company which provided it with tech and advertising services bought her stake but have now fallen out with Mikkelson and call him a fraudster
• Case could see judge order site closed - despite it being chosen by Facebook to arbitrate on fake new

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.

[gogeo]

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.

[riri]

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

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent reality summary:

Liberals are a parasite that kills the host.

[minnesota_bound]

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.

[OldMissileer]

I wonder if he invited any of the prostitutes on his honeymoon?

His new wife is a porn actress.

[OldMissileer]

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. :-)

[NorthMountain]

Dammit! You beat me to it ...

[NorthMountain]

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.

[Chode]

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

[DuncanWaring]

Gotta be quick...

[DuncanWaring]

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

[fieldmarshaldj]

"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.

[Impy]

What inaccuracies have they posted that make them hated here?

[fieldmarshaldj]

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...”