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Facebook 'fact checker' who will arbitrate on 'fake news' is accused of defrauding website
The Daily Mail ^
| 12/21/16
| Alana Goodman
Posted on 12/22/2016 2:48:56 AM PST by Enlightened1
Facebook has announced plans to check for 'fake news' using a series of organizations to assess whether stories are true
One of them is a website called Snopes.com which claims to be one of the web's 'essential resources' and 'painstaking, scholarly and reliable'
It was founded by husband-and-wife Barbara and David Mikkelson, who used a letterhead claiming they were a non-existent society to start their research
Now they are divorced - with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on 'himself and prostitutes'
In a lengthy and bitter legal dispute he is claiming to be underpaid and demanding 'industry standard' or at least $360,000 a year
The two also dispute what are basic facts of their case - despite Snopes.com saying its 'ownership' is committed to 'accuracy and impartiality'
Snopes.com founder David Mikkelson's new wife Elyssa Young is employed by the website as an administrator
She has worked as an escort and porn actress and despite claims website is non-political ran as a Libertarian for Congress on a 'Dump Bush' platform
Its main 'fact checker' is Kimberly LaCapria, whose blog 'ViceVixen' says she is in touch with her 'domme side' and has posted on Snopes.com while smoking pot
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: checker; facebook; fact; snopes
Well, well, well..... This is what Leftist call truth.
Why am I not surprise.
Next time someone on Free Republic sites Snopes. Please link them this article.
To: Enlightened1
This must be “fake news.” Facebook would not try to hoodwink us, would they? I prefer the committee where they depend on ex-Stasi agent Anetta Kahane.
To: Enlightened1
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posted on
12/22/2016 3:43:19 AM PST
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
To: Enlightened1
Profiles of the website disclose that for some time before it was set up, the couple had posed as 'The San Fernardo Valley Folklore Society', using its name on letterheads, even though it did not exist. Fake news checking website run by fakes.
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posted on
12/22/2016 3:47:04 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
(Les Deplorables Triumphant)
To: Enlightened1
Fakebook streams fake and irrelevant “news”.
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posted on
12/22/2016 4:00:05 AM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Enlightened1
I don't remember all the lies Snopes was caught in over the years. Just always have warned people it's Democrat propaganda.
To: Missouri gal
Who fact checks the fact checkers?
To: Nothingburger
RE: Who checks the fact checkers
That's the whole problem with censorship. The least honest people want to control the message. A truly free press is fact-checked by a well informed public armed with ability to impose penalties for false information (libel, defamation, etc).
To: Enlightened1
I remember a member of the Snopes team calling the New Testament a stain that will be ignored in a question about the bible.
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posted on
12/22/2016 4:39:11 AM PST
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Enlightened1
Twas a Joy to Share this on facebook. Love this time of year with all this sharing and joy.
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posted on
12/22/2016 5:01:04 AM PST
by
Pollard
(TRUMP 2016)
To: Enlightened1
Time for fact checkers to check the facts on the fact checkers!!!
This is humorous.... It’s the “Art of War” in action... Let the enemy fight within and divide... anyone want to give them more gasoline... maybe in a few press releases about Snopes...
It was founded by husband-and-wife Barbara and David Mikkelson, who used a letterhead claiming they were a non-existent society to start their research
Now they are divorced - with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on ‘himself and prostitutes’
In a lengthy and bitter legal dispute he is claiming to be underpaid and demanding ‘industry standard’ or at least $360,000 a year
To: Enlightened1
Hate speech, fake news and fact checkers are just more Orwellian terms constituting the left’s Newspeak. Changing the language to change how people think. Thought Crime isn’t far off.
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posted on
12/22/2016 6:04:57 AM PST
by
Spok
("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
To: Enlightened1
Didn’t Zuckerberg basically steal the idea for Facebook from someone else? He may be a talented social media promoter but he has no credentials to manage news content. Actually, I never even noticed the “news feed” on FB until it was pointed out here on FR.
To: NewHampshireDuo
313 Yes he did steal the idea from 2 brothers among others. They sued and settled the cases for hundreds of millions in stock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
The other “founder” was Eduardo Saverin. He renounce his American citizenship and moved to Singapore with over $7 billion. Wiki says he avoided an estimated $700 million in capital gains taxes.
The Snopes guy has that same creepy smile as the guy who runs that Girls gone wild company.
The escort lady looks like she gained a few pounds since she started out.
To: Enlightened1
She escorts under the name Erin O'Bryn and still has an active website.
http://erinobryn.callgirlfiles.com/home
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