Snopes On Verge Of Collapse After Founder Is Accused Of Fraud, Lies, and Prostitutes

The Daily Mail ^ | 07/26/17 | Alana Goodman

[Enlightened1]

Fact-checking' website Snopes is asking its users for help in a GoFundMe saying an 'outside vendor' is 'holding it hostage' 

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• But the site which claims to be 'transparent' and to tell people the facts they need to know hasn't told those donating everything that is going on
• In fact it is at the center of a bitter legal battle with its CEO being accused of fraud, lies, conspiracy and putting prostitutes and his honeymoon on expenses
• David Mikkelson set up company which owns Snopes.com in 2003 with then wife Barbara but she sold her 50 per cent stake during bitter divorce
• Owners of company which provided it with tech and advertising services bought her stake but have now fallen out with Mikkelson and call him a fraudster
• Case could see judge order site closed - despite it being chosen by Facebook to arbitrate on fake new

Fact-checking website Snopes is on the verge of financial collapse after its owner was accused of embezzling company funds to pay for his contentious divorce battle and lavish overseas trips with his new wife, a former Las Vegas escort and porn actress.

The company's financial woes have gotten so bad that Snopes' owner David Mikkelson started a crowd-funding website pleading for donations this week, which raised over $500,000 from generous readers in its first day.

But DailyMail.com can disclose significant facts which are entirely missing from the fact-checking website's version of events - including the fraud allegations against Mikkeslon.

Snopes.com was started by David Mikkelson and his ex-wife Barbara in the mid-1990s as a website that debunked myths and urban legends.

In recent years, it has started to delve into the area of politics and 'fact-checking' so-called 'fake news' stories.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Snopes.com victorious in pre-trial motions

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sd-fi-snopes-minuteorder-20170823-story.html

[wastoute]

Yeah, but then why ask for donors? I am betting it is something else.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Fraud, Lies, and Prostitutes.”

The modern version of “Sex, Lies, and Video Tapes?”

[Noumenon]

Maybe he goes for those corn-fed wimmens. Just sayin.

[Slyfox]

A GoFundMe page? Does Soros know about this?

[DuncanWaring]

Corn-fed wimmens, and corn whisky.

[DuncanWaring]

Corn-fed wimmens, and corn whiskey.

[Noumenon]

Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild women
Jim Croce

Cigarettes, whiskey and wild wild women
They’ll drive you crazy, they’ll drive you insane
Once I was happy and had a good wife
I had enough money to last me for life
I met with a girl and we went on a spree
She taught me to smoke and drink whiskey
Cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women
They’ll drive you crazy, they’ll drive you insane
Cigarettes, whiskey and wild wild women
They’ll drive you crazy, they’ll drive you insane

And now I’m feeble and broken with age
The lines on my face make a well written page
I’m leaving this story, how sad but how true
On women and whiskey and what they will do
Cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women
They’ll drive you crazy, they’ll drive you insane
Cigarettes, whiskey and wild wild women
They’ll drive you crazy, they’ll drive you insane
Write on the cross at the head of my grave
‘For women and whiskey, here lies a poor slave
Take warning, dear stranger, take warning, dear friend’
Then write in big letters these words at the end

Cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women
They’ll drive you crazy, they’ll drive you insane
Cigarettes, whiskey and wild wild women
They’ll drive you crazy, they’ll drive you insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4rY52SWklc

[ArtDodger]

“...why ask for donors? “
Rich liberals, especially, love to have projects funded with other people’s money. Never their own. But, I will buy the ‘Heather Brooke without the looks’ theory.

[longfellow]

He invited his wife.

[Tallguy]

Probably get bought like Huffington Post did...

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I did a fact check on snopes of ‘Did David Mikkelson embezzle and commit fraud on snopes’ and got a bunch of non relevant gobbledygook....

[stylin19a]

Thanks for the link. That explains the prostitutes.

[DuncanWaring]

Cigareets and Sake

https://sonichits.com/video/Oscar_Brand/Cigarettes_and_Sake

[bgill]

Once they fail, the internet will be more truthful.

[unread]

"We’d have to get rid of every Democrat politician."

Sounds like a plan.......

[The Sons of Liberty]

Snopes On Verge Of Collapse After Founder Is Accused Of Fraud, Lies, and Prostitutes

My experience has been that lefties hold Snopes up as the ultimate word, even when you can prove it false.

[Pontiac]

In recent years, it has started to delve into the area of politics and 'fact-checking' so-called 'fake news' stories.

Recently huh.

Pretty sure that the whole reason for the website was to defend the Clintons from the truth.

[chaosagent]

In cases like this one wonders if there aren’t “other attributes”, like maybe she can suck the husk off a coconut.

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Or ‘the chrome off a bumper hitch’ like Willie Nelson said.

[Fred Hayek]

First I heard that song was when it was done by Peter Sellers on the Muppet Show.