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Snopes, in Heated Legal Battle, Asks Readers for Money to Survive
The NY Times ^ | JULY 24, 2017 | DANIEL VICTOR

Posted on 07/24/2017 4:25:17 PM PDT by tje

Snopes, the fact-checking website that once focused on debunking flimsy internet rumors but has expanded into a 16-person operation that calls out political leaders for dishonesty, is locked in a legal battle that it says has drained the money it needs to survive.

The site, which gets all of its revenue from advertising, created a crowdfunding page on Monday, seeking $500,000 from readers to remain operational indefinitely. It says that Proper Media, the vendor that runs its advertising services, has withheld the site’s revenue and has refused to relinquish control of the site. That leaves Bardav — the company that owns and operates Snopes — with no way of moving the site to a new host or installing its own ads, said David Mikkelson, a founder of the site.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bardav; broke; crowdfunding; factcheckers; fakenews; fundingtheleft; jewvsjew; legalbattle; liberalagenda; mikkelson; propermedia; snopes; snopesgfy; snopeslawsuit
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To: tje

Running a business is complex and risky.

It’s even harder when you are STUPID enough to alienate your customers by being politically correct. Be honest and non-partisan and at least you have not created enemies.


21 posted on 07/24/2017 4:43:45 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: tje

May the Times be next....


22 posted on 07/24/2017 4:44:31 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: tje

Looks like they will survive. They raised 272,000 in 10 hours.
https://www.gofundme.com/savesnopes


23 posted on 07/24/2017 4:45:02 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: tje

Soros quit his funding? Must have been a fallout.


24 posted on 07/24/2017 4:49:28 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: tje
Check's in the mail, you lying, leftist frauds!

(Is that redundantly redundant or redundance squared? Math is hard!)

25 posted on 07/24/2017 4:50:55 PM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: tje

Snopes gets free advertising from NYT, so NYT can continue to cite Snopes as an authority.


26 posted on 07/24/2017 4:51:18 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: tje

Thanks for posting this! You made my day! (-:


27 posted on 07/24/2017 4:54:08 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: tje

I thought Soros was involved with financially sponsoring Snopes. Guess not.


28 posted on 07/24/2017 4:55:51 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: tje
Paging the Boo Hoo girl


29 posted on 07/24/2017 4:56:20 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dsrtsage
I can't check with snopes...

The rumors are it was founded by a prostitute and a felon.

Maybe deadbeats too? how did they manage to go broke?

30 posted on 07/24/2017 4:56:42 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: tje
Snopes: "Help! Help! My ex hooker wife is charging me by the minute! Send money...

Status: More than likely

31 posted on 07/24/2017 4:57:34 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: tje
Not to worry. I shall step forward to pledge the entire 500K buckadingdongs myself.

"But Bill, you don't have 500K buckadingdongs."

Yeah. I only said I'd pledge it.

32 posted on 07/24/2017 4:57:47 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SkyPilot

I guess keeping a new girlfriend in good clothing is expensive if your new girlfriend is a high class hooker / whore....


33 posted on 07/24/2017 4:59:33 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Billthedrill

They should get Bernie Sanders’ wife to handle the fundraising.


34 posted on 07/24/2017 5:02:38 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: tje
$277,755

Looks like they will stay afloat to serve up more leftist propaganda "fact checks."

It's a shame they didn't try to be what they purported to be.

35 posted on 07/24/2017 5:03:01 PM PDT by TChad
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To: tje

Snopes is left wing all the way. Hope they get sued out of business.

I hate leftists using it as the final arbiter of all things when it’s a biased POS.


36 posted on 07/24/2017 5:04:20 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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37 posted on 07/24/2017 5:04:35 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: tje

Leftist Snopes deserves a death.


38 posted on 07/24/2017 5:04:55 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: tje
"Snopes, the fact-checking website that once focused on debunking flimsy internet rumors but has expanded into a 16-person operation that calls out political leaders for dishonesty"

They went beyond the scope of their brand.

39 posted on 07/24/2017 5:04:56 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: tje

Leftwing propagandists.

As I suspected, the current issues flow out of the divorce.


40 posted on 07/24/2017 5:08:04 PM PDT by PAR35
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