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.

[Enlightened1]

This is about 6 weeks old, but still worth the mention.

[wastoute]

Libtards are immoral and frequently criminal? This is not news. Hell, it isn’t even decent gossip.

[pgkdan]

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

Wow. Company funds used to pay for prostitutes AND his honeymoon. What a stand up guy! I wonder if he invited any of the prostitutes on his honeymoon?

[ETL]

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

SOURCE: FREE REPUBLIC.COM

RATING: TRUE

[Grampa Dave]

Sounds like someone with an agenda engaged in selective sampling.

Liberals, when they try run any business based on liberal values, end up Ruining Any Business with their liberal values.

They have the same reverse Midas Touch when they control any so called non profit!

[null and void]

First I’ve heard of it.

I bet snopes says it’s false...

[originalbuckeye]

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving website.........

[Drew68]

Hell, it isn’t even decent gossip.

Made even worse by the photos of his escort/porn star wife.

There are rules in life and one such rule is that if you are going to run off and marry an escort/porn star, she should be hot!

Blech! What a hambeast!

[wastoute]

In cases like this one wonders if there aren’t “other attributes”, like maybe she can suck the husk off a coconut.

[blueunicorn6]

So he’s a crook.

That doesn’t mean we can’t trust him does it?

We’d have to get rid of every Democrat politician.

[VaeVictis]

Next up, scientist determined through various tests that farts smell bad.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Anything new happen in the two months since this article was published?

[Skywise]

Who watches the watchers?

[usconservative]

Everytime someone uses Snopes as a "debunking" website I post pictures of his fraud and prostitution allegations along with his ugly divorce to discredit that site.

How ANYONE uses Snopes (or ever did....) is beyond me.

[robroys woman]

I’ll need to check this story on snopes to see if it’s true. :-D

[TigerClaws]

Yet libs still donated hundreds of thousands to keep the site open.

Libs love treating Snopes as a trump card for debates — “Ah, ha! Snopes! I win!”

It’s a left wing shill site spreading disinformation. Was big backing multiple Obama lies for two elections. Hope the place goes out of business.

They should ask (Non) Southern (Non) Poverty group for some of that offshore money to stay open. Might be him porn star wife #2.

[Leep]

Accused of prostitutes?..sounds serious.

[DarthVader]

Bookmark.

[Sasparilla]

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

And it’s worked out that nothing in the MSM is fake and everything conservative media reports is.

[ArtDodger]

“In cases like this one wonders if there aren’t “other attributes”, like maybe she can suck the husk off a coconut.”
Or she could have inherited an extremely large amount of money...