The BuzzFeed inquiry prompted Snopes to launch an internal review of Mikkelson's articles and to retract 60 of them the day the Buzzfeed story appeared. Mikkelson also published plagiarized material under a pseudonym, "Jeff Zarronandia". On August 13, 2021, BuzzFeed News published an investigation by reporter Dean Sterling Jones that showed David Mikkelson had used plagiarized material from different news sources in 54 articles between 20 in an effort to increase website traffic. Plagiarism by co-founder David Mikkelson Snopes has around 237 COVID-related fact-checking articles. 2020s COVID-19 pandemic and misinformation Īs the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, many people tried to "educate themselves on the coronavirus" and find "any comfort, certainty, or hope for a cure ". The move failed as David Mikkelson had no intention to sell his share. By then Proper Media had become a co-owner of Bardav through acquiring Barbara Mikkelson's half-interest share, intending to take overall ownership of Snopes for its own "portfolio of media sites". In 2019, Snopes was embroiled in legal disputes with Proper Media, with a court case scheduled for spring 2020. Snopes added a new rating called "Labeled Satire" to identify satirical stories. The decision resulted in Facebook adding warnings to links to those articles shared on its site. In 20, Snopes fact-checked several articles from The Babylon Bee, a satirical website, rating them "False". OnTheIssues is a website that seeks to "present all the relevant evidence, assess how strongly each piece supports or opposes a position, and summarize it with an average" in order to "provide voters with reliable information on candidates' policy positions".
In early 2019, Snopes announced that it had acquired the website, and is "hard at work modernizing its extensive archives". By the time Snopes co-founder and CEO David Mikkelson confirmed the termination to her, the situation was still not clear. In July 2018, Snopes abruptly terminated its contract with Managing Editor Brooke Binkowski, with no explanation. Later, in August, a judge ordered Proper Media to disburse advertising revenues to Bardav while the case was pending. In late June, Bardav-the company founded by David and Barbara Mikkelson in 2003 to own and operate -started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to continue operations. The move prompted Proper Media to stop remitting advertising revenue and to file a lawsuit in May. On March 9, 2017, David Mikkelson terminated the brokering agreement with Proper Media, which is also the company that provides Snopes with web development, hosting, and advertising support.
Christopher Richmond and Drew Schoentrup became part owners in July 2016 with the purchase of Barbara Mikkelson's share by the internet media management company Proper Media. The Mikkelsons divorced around that time. 2010s īy mid-2014, Barbara had not written for Snopes "in several years" and David was forced to hire users from 's message board to assist him in running the site. īy 2010, the site was attracting seven million to eight million unique visitors in an average month. However, it did not air on major networks. In 2002, the site had become known well enough that a television pilot called Snopes: Urban Legends was completed with American actor Jim Davidson as host. David Mikkelson had originally adopted the username "Snopes" (the name of a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner) in the Usenet newsgroup. According to the Mikkelsons, Snopes predated the search engine concept of fact-checking via search results. The site grew to encompass a wide range of subjects and became a resource to which Internet users began submitting pictures and stories of questionable veracity. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly presented search results of user discussions. In 1994, David and Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become. The site has also been seen as a source for both validating and debunking urban legends and similar stories in American popular culture. It has been described as a "well-regarded reference for sorting out myths and rumors" on the Internet. Snopes / ˈ s n oʊ p s/, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website. 1994 29 years ago ( 1994) (as Urban Legends Reference Pages)
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