Snopes confirms Snopes published at least 60 articles all or partly plagiarized (Page 1/1)
rinselberg AUG 14, 05:45 PM

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Snopes, which has long presented itself as the internet’s premier fact-checking resource, has retracted 60 articles after a BuzzFeed News investigation found that the site’s co-founder plagiarized from news outlets as part of a strategy intended to scoop up web traffic.

“As you can imagine, our staff are gutted and appalled by this,” Vinny Green, the Snopes chief operating officer, said on Friday. He said the Snopes editorial team was conducting a review to understand just how many articles written by David Mikkelson, the site’s co-founder and chief executive, featured content plagiarized from other news sites.

As of Friday afternoon, the team had found 60, he said. By Friday morning, dozens of articles had been removed from the site, with pages that formerly featured those articles now showing the word “retracted” and an explanation that “some or all of its content was taken from other sources without proper attribution.” Ads have been removed from these articles, according to Mr. Green.

Mr. Mikkelson, who owns 50 percent of Snopes Media Group, will continue to be Snopes’s chief executive, but his ability to publish articles has been revoked, Mr. Green said.

So it begins, in the New York Times.

"Snopes Retracts 60 Articles Plagiarized by Co-Founder: ‘Our Staff Are Gutted’"

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The fact-checking site has banned David Mikkelson, who owns half the company, from writing articles after a BuzzFeed News investigation prompted an internal review.

Heather Murphy for the New York Times; August 13, 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...David-Mikkelson.html


There's more (quite a bit more) at BuzzFeed News.

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David Mikkelson, the co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news. But he has been lying to the site's tens of millions of readers: A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that between 2015 and 2019, Mikkelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times.

After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material. The articles include such topics as same-sex marriage licenses and the death of musician David Bowie.

Snopes VP of Editorial and Managing Editor Doreen Marchionni suspended Mikkelson from editorial duties pending “a comprehensive internal investigation.” He remains an officer and a 50% shareholder of the company. . . .


"The Co-Founder Of Snopes Wrote Dozens Of Plagiarized Articles For The Fact-Checking Site"
Dean Sterling Jones for BuzzFeed News; August 13, 2021.
https://www.buzzfeednews.co...plagiarism-mikkelson

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sourmash AUG 14, 07:39 PM
Who even bothers looking at that site? It's farcical the way (((they))) spin descriptions that say one thing while they try to spin it the other way.
randye AUG 14, 08:38 PM

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Originally posted by sourmash:

Who even bothers looking at that site? It's farcical the way (((they))) spin descriptions that say one thing while they try to spin it the other way.




SNOPES SNOPED SNOPES and the only ones that are shocked are the Lunatic Leftists.

By the way, has anyone SNOPED what "SNOPES CONFIRMS" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Everyone else has known for decades that self-serving-sewer was David and Barbara Mickelson's private little Lefty / Demorat propaganda apparatus and the universal "go-to" for lazy, ignorant, gullible, Leftists to claim that something is "debunked" or " verified".

It's not going to change now but you have to wonder exactly why anyone with a brain in their head should believe for a moment that the majority shareholder is going to be frozen out from writing whatever the hell he wants to, (or having it written for him by an employee) .

Maybe we can SNOPES that.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Maybe SNOPES can SNOPE on POLITIFACT and POLITIFACT can "FACT" them right back ......

.......OR maybe lazy, idiot, Lefties can start doing actual research on their own.....

.....NEVERMIND...that'll never happen.

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