For years, the so-called fact-checking outfit known as Snopes has been gaslighting the American people by claiming to be an authoritative source of truth and declaring events and ideas that contradict leftist or government talking points as false. The research tools for use in this endeavor include Google, full stop. In short, they are a couple in Orange County, California whose truth-finding capabilities are on par with the average stay-at-home parent and who we are meant to believe is the final word in fact and truth.
Judging by the pictures we’ve seen of them, they should have their cat’s diet fact-checked, but that’s just the start of their problems. Founder David Mikkelson has been accused of embezzling nearly $100,000 and left his wife and Snopes co-founder to marry a porn star.
Now Mikkelson has been suspended by the Snopes organization for massive plagiarism, for instructing Snopes staff to steal other people’s work. According to the disgraced fact-checking outfit, “[…] internal research has found 54 stories Mikkelson published using appropriated material, including all stories shared with us by Buzzfeed.”
Former managing editor for Snopes, Brook Binkowski said, “He wrote about topics he knew would attract hate mail under an assumed name. It also made it seem as if he had more staff than he actually had. He instructed us to copy text from sites, post them verbatim, and change the story in real-time.”
According to other former employees, part of Mikkelson’s business model was the use of other people’s work as a way to make it look as if Snopes was larger than it actually was and to appear to “get the scoop” on stories of the day.
According to ZeroHedge, Mikkelson excuses himself saying, “I didn’t come from a journalism background. I wasn’t used to doing news aggregation. Several times I crossed the line to where it was copyright infringement. I own that.”
The company has been targeted by lawsuits for years now and has recently raised over a million and a half dollars to fight a slew of lawsuits from the tech company Proper Media. However, the total number of stolen stories Snopes has claimed to have originated is likely to be unknown.
Ironically, today’s best news media outlets on the Internet do not originate stories. Some do, but not all. Rather, the vanguard of truth-tellers out there today focus their efforts on reporting on news stories themselves, looking for inconsistencies in corporate narratives, and for misinterpretations of law, history, and reason.
Snopes could have filled this role as easily as the best of us, telling the truth to the best of their ability — accepting the fact that they could always be wrong — and admitting it when they are. Here at Liberty Planet, this is our chosen role, reporting on the news, doing our best to expose lies and evil where logic and vetted history make such work possible.
In an age when truth and information are so readily available, there is no excuse for dishonesty.
Snopes has zero credibility. Just a bunch of left wing hacks lying their butts off to help the Democrats!
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Should be known as nopes.com
Nick lessons have been leftist propaganda spielers since they started. I’ve NEVER BELIEVED THOSE ASS HOLES.
Neither have I. I thought they might have been receiving paychecks from Soros from the beginning.
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Ditto..mouthpieces for the Marxist Democrat Dictatorship.
Snopes has proven that the truth is just another commodity to be bought and sold to the highest bidder
what a piece of work. I guess next time someone says Snopes said this or that, I will have ammunition to tell them they are full of Schiff.
I have wondered at times, but I really have not used them much. In the future I won,t be using them at all. If they even survive
I’ve never used them or any other fact-checking sites
This undated story has been around for more than a year
Thank goodness maybe snopes is on their way out completely. It is totally false information. They would put just a tidbit of truth to make people think they were legit – but totally lies.
Snopes.com is owned by George Soros, one of the biggest communists in this country.
What a great system that is in place it just keeps destroying human lives and then gets paid for it . If there is a God seams like he she it they them whoever’s gonna claim to be GOD is not paying attention. Or maybe he she it them whoever is and it’s all going as planned.
Snopes is a joke. They wouldn’t know a fact if they were beat to death with it. They are totally politically biased in their fact checking.
In the end SNOPES = LOSER LIAR and should be punished for political bias !
I queried Snopes several times by rewording the same query about their plagiarism. For each query, nothing was found at Snopes. Here is one of the queries: Did Snope’s Mikkelson plagiarize articles?
All these so-called “FACT-CHECKERS” have, in fact, never truly “checked any facts” – but simply “verified” their own lies – and that goes for all of them, from WaPo, NYT, and CNN to BBC, SKY, DW, AFP and others: All USA and Colonies..
ALL left wing truth finders or fact checkers are liars who can’t be trusted or believed.
SNOPES THE DOPES were always a bunch of pro-radical leftist liars with their false fact checking!!!!!!
Fight like it’s 1776 or
You will live like it’s 1984.
Here’s The Deal…
LET’S GO BRANDON !!!
Always laughed at fact checking, my nephew tried to tell me something was fact checked at Fact Check, and I couldn’t believe he actually believed it. Wow, it’s just crazy what people accept as true, just cuz some leftist/communist said it or wrote it. A famous comedian was so shocked when the leftist lawyer Michael Sussman was convicted of falsifying a document, basically lying to the FBI, he really believed Trump was in cahoots with Russia. The TRUTH is, the Clintons are involved with Russia, or at least they were. Michael Sussman was defended by the same law firm that Halyna’s husband works for, the one that was shot by Alec Baldwin. Coincidence??????