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

She's good, no denying that. So was Bernie Madoff. He'd be my second choice.

41 posted on 07/24/2017 5:09:03 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: All

Whats the matter Snopes?

Did the Soros, 0bama and Clinton checks bounce?


42 posted on 07/24/2017 5:09:40 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: MayflowerMadam

After their credibility was finally shot there was diminished benafit to Soros.

The money is better spent raising up a new propaganda tool.


43 posted on 07/24/2017 5:12:54 PM PDT by MrEdd (long hours.)
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To: Maudeen

At one point they were an interesting and provocative site that debunked urban legends. Then they somehow became considered experts on everything when it was really just an old ho and her pimp in a trailer in Vegas. I wonder if the plan is to have Organizing For America fill their coffers with 25 dollar donations.


44 posted on 07/24/2017 5:14:38 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: tje

I thought they were supported and controlled by the Hillary Campaign?


45 posted on 07/24/2017 5:24:41 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: tje

The Sn in the word Snopes is one of those rare instances in which Sn is pronounced as a D.


46 posted on 07/24/2017 5:27:18 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Vigilanteman
"The pussy cat standing on top of the couch is the only honorable member of the team."

I wouldnt be too sure. You think its gotten that chubby eating domestic mice from under the fridge? We know it wasnt stealing from petty cash for Ahi sushi, no pockets. Im betting company credit card, internet, foie gras.

OMG! THATS where the $98000 went!

47 posted on 07/24/2017 5:30:49 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: dynachrome

Wow, the whole Snopes thing is a mess, prostitutes, drugs, embezzling, divorce, etc.


48 posted on 07/24/2017 5:32:32 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: tje

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Liberalism is a mental disease.


49 posted on 07/24/2017 5:33:24 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: SkyPilot
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50 posted on 07/24/2017 5:34:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: tje

[a 16-person operation that calls out political leaders for dishonesty]

HA. Had they ever told THE TRUTH about Obama and Hillary, the DNC would have killed them. Like they have several others.

Good riddance, Snopes. I won’t wish you “Goodbye”.


51 posted on 07/24/2017 5:40:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 21:36 KJV Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all...)
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To: SkyPilot

And yet people still use them.....SMH

WND caught them in their Obama birth hospital error which they tried to hide.


52 posted on 07/24/2017 5:43:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 21:36 KJV Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all...)
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To: tje

Karma is a .....well you know.


53 posted on 07/24/2017 6:02:16 PM PDT by marygam (can this country do a U turn and be great again?)
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To: Karl Spooner

$319K now..... so many suckers!!!

This is just a money grab from shysters who screwed up their lives and now want web donors to bail them out.


54 posted on 07/24/2017 6:03:53 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: tje

They really screwed up when they went from debunking urban myths into political “fact checking.”


55 posted on 07/24/2017 6:04:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: ichabod1
"At one point they were an interesting and provocative site that debunked urban legends."

I completely agree. When I first heard of snopes, I was on that site for HOURS.

They researched things like the the "candy poisonings" on halloween.

Once they went full retard leftist, they were just a joke.

Never go full retard.

The only people who nowadays cite snopes as an actual "legit" source of information are dupes and fools.

They don't even seem to do any research, themselves. They basically copy and paste the liberal conventional wisdom, which is no doubt furnished by places like media matters.

ANOTHER bogus site, with questionable finances and sexual impropriety galore.

Soros money can only go so far.

They can't cover up *everything*.

Eventually David Brock's shenanigans came out for the world to see.

56 posted on 07/24/2017 6:05:57 PM PDT by boop (I'd wish you luck, but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it!)
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To: tje

Snopes attracts dopes.


57 posted on 07/24/2017 6:18:23 PM PDT by adorno (w)
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To: tje
Someone should post:

Internet rumor that Snopes is asking for money to survive.

Our finding: False.

-PJ

58 posted on 07/24/2017 6:26:09 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: tje

A reminder for everyone:

Snopes, Which Will Be Fact-Checking For Facebook, Employs Leftists Almost Exclusively
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/16/snopes-facebooks-new-fact-checker-employs-leftists-almost-exclusively/

Snopes, Politifact, & Other Fact Checkers are Liberal Mouthpieces
http://canadafreepress.com/article/snopes-politifact-other-fact-checkers-are-liberal-mouthpieces

And if Facebook is using them, why isn’t it PAYING them?


59 posted on 07/24/2017 6:41:21 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tje


60 posted on 07/24/2017 7:03:13 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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