Snopes.com Implodes, Resorts To GoFundMe

[Swordsmyth]

Snopes.com is a failed liberal blog from 1994. The website claims to
be the internet’s oldest and most popular fact-checking site. Last
year, Snopes Co-Founder was accused (http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/snopes-co-founder-accused-of-embezzling-company-money-spending-it-on-prostitutes/) of embezzling company money, and spending it on prostitutes.
Now you can find the blog begging for $500k in funding via GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/savesnopes). So, far the campaign has raised $18,000 in 3 hours via 710 people...

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/snopescom-implodes-resorts-gofundme

[dannno]

We need you! Help #SaveSnopes!




SNOPES.COM (http://SNOPES.COM) COMMUNITY: WE NEED YOUR HELP
Snopes.com in Danger of Shuttering
Dear Readers,

Snopes.com, which began as a small one-person effort in 1994 and has since become one of the Internet’s oldest and most popular fact-checking sites, is in danger of closing its doors. So, for the first time in our history, we are turning to you, our readership, for help.


Since our inception, we have always been a self-sustaining site that provides a free service to the online world: we've had no sponsors, no outside investors or funding, and no source of revenue other than that provided by online advertising. Unfortunately, we have been cut off from our historic source of advertising income.


We had previously contracted with an outside vendor to provide certain services for Snopes.com. That contractual relationship ended earlier this year, but the vendor will not acknowledge the change in contractual status and continues to essentially hold the Snopes.com web site hostage. Although we maintain editorial control (for now), the vendor will not relinquish the site’s hosting to our control, so we cannot modify the site, develop it, or — most crucially — place advertising on it. The vendor continues to insert their own ads and has been withholding the advertising revenue from us.


Our legal team is fighting hard for us, but, having been cut off from all revenue, we are facing the prospect of having no financial means to continue operating the site and paying our staff (not to mention covering our legal fees) in the meanwhile.


As misinformation has increasingly threatened democracies around the world (including our own), Snopes.com has stood in the forefront of fighting for truth and dispelling misinformation online. It is vital that these efforts continue, so we are asking the Snopes.com community to donate what they can. (Our suggested donation is $10, but if you can give more please consider doing so — every little bit helps.)


We need our community now more than ever, as it is only through your support that Snopes.com can remain the community and resource we all know and love.


Sincerely yours,


Team Snopes

[dannno]

$146,341 of $500k goal
Raised by 5,031 people in 7 hours

[William Tell]

$146,341 of $500k goal


Raised by 5,031 people in 7 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu0Bm_HfX-s

[Anti Federalist]

As misinformation has increasingly threatened democracies around the world (including our own)

Misinformation?

The US government is not a democracy.

[Krugminator2]

"Fact checking" has become the new way to spread liberal propaganda. There are a ton of examples but a couple that I can remember off the top of my head.

Social Security/Medicare
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/23/does-the-united-states-have-128-trillion-in-unfunded-liabilities/?utm_term=.24e3a4946a1f and then this article on NPR totally refutes it but the "fact check" is still up. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/06/139027615/a-national-debt-of-14-trillion-try-211-trillion

This one tries to refute that the rise in single parent households was caused by the Great Society.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/mar/25/facebook-posts/facebook-meme-blames-great-society-large-rise-afri/ It doesn't take anytime to find sources to provided a reasonable view supporting the claim. http://reason.com/archives/1984/12/01/saving-the-poor-from-welfare http://www.heritage.org/welfare/report/how-welfare-undermines-marriage-and-what-do-about-it

[Created4]

Snopes Exposed: A Look at the “Fake News” Watch Dogs (http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/snopes-exposed-a-look-at-the-fake-news-industry/)

http://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/David-Mikkelson-Elyssa-Young-300x225.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asEt8wSd46w

[timosman]

"Fact checking" has become the new way to spread liberal propaganda.

Remember this worn out meme: reality has a liberal bias? ;)

[oyarde]

Man I grew up in the wrong era . I would have had a multitude of crazy ass liberal web sites and used the money to fund all kinds of things .

[heavenlyboy34]

Misinformation?

The US government is not a democracy.
IDK,a sophist or political speechwriter could say representative republicanism is a form of indirect democracy and therefore “democracy”. IMO Amendment 27 pretty well made Murica all but a democracy. #gettingtechnical

[Created4]

I would not call Snopes (originally a married couple - David and Barbara Mikkelson - just using their computer and Google to look things up) "liberal."

They protected certain industries, including Big Pharma and Big Ag. These cartels are bastions of Republicanism. Snopes will attack anything in the alternative media, so their demise is sure since the alternative media finally beat out the corporate "mainstream media" and their anointed candidate this past election.

The reason they are in trouble now is because the Mikkelsons are going through a messy divorce, as David ran off with a woman who runs an escort service, and this news got out to the public.

The fact that so many are still duped by this website shows just how mindless the American public is.

[Working Poor]

Man I grew up in the wrong era . I would have had a multitude of crazy ass liberal web sites and used the money to fund all kinds of things .

If I was young in this era I would own half the world and you would own the other half.

[AZJoe]

Snopes Co-Founder was accused (http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/snopes-co-founder-accused-of-embezzling-company-money-spending-it-on-prostitutes/) of embezzling company money, and spending it on prostitutes.

Snopes "fact-checking" confirms that these antics had nothing to do with the company's downfall.

[donnay]

They Are NOT Broke—Snopes’ GoFundMe Is a Scam To Fund a Dirty Divorce
The fact checking website, Snopes, has launched a GoFundMe, claiming to be broke. But if we look behind the scenes, we see what's really going on.

By Matt Agorist - July 24, 2017

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/snopes3-696x366.jpg

Snopes is in trouble. According to a self-launched fund raiser, the ostensible fact-checking website, founded in 1994, is on the financial ropes and needs your support to stay open. A GoFundMe for the supposed hoax-debunking site has since been setup and is going viral. If it continues raising money at this current rate, it will easily surpass its goal of $500,000 by the end of the day.

While Twitter followers flock en masse to throw money at David Mikkelson, one of the controlling partners in the Snopes business, they’d do well to understand why it is he has no money.

Snopes, as a business — is not broke. David Mikkelson — who’s been accused of defrauding the website to pay for prostitution — is broke.

Snopes’ estimated value is in the tens of millions, with a daily revenue intake around five figures — a day. They are currently ranked in the top 2,600 websites globally as well as being in the top 700 domestically. The behemoth ‘fact-checker’ is nowhere near being broke.

However, thanks to a dirty divorce between David Mikkelson and his ex-wife Barbara Mikkelson, the company has turned into a glorious shit show.

If you read their GoFundMe page, David alleges the site is being “held hostage” by a “vendor” it contracted with in 2015 and ended its ties with this spring. He claims that the Snopes site and this “vendor” are engaged in a legal battle that could eliminate their “financial means to continue operating the site and paying our staff (not to mention covering our legal fees) in the meanwhile.”

Read more: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/snopes-begs-money-gofundme/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

[dannno]

They Are NOT Broke—Snopes’ GoFundMe Is a Scam To Fund a Dirty Divorce
The fact checking website, Snopes, has launched a GoFundMe, claiming to be broke. But if we look behind the scenes, we see what's really going on.

By Matt Agorist - July 24, 2017

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/snopes3-696x366.jpg

Snopes is in trouble. According to a self-launched fund raiser, the ostensible fact-checking website, founded in 1994, is on the financial ropes and needs your support to stay open. A GoFundMe for the supposed hoax-debunking site has since been setup and is going viral. If it continues raising money at this current rate, it will easily surpass its goal of $500,000 by the end of the day.

While Twitter followers flock en masse to throw money at David Mikkelson, one of the controlling partners in the Snopes business, they’d do well to understand why it is he has no money.

Snopes, as a business — is not broke. David Mikkelson — who’s been accused of defrauding the website to pay for prostitution — is broke.

Snopes’ estimated value is in the tens of millions, with a daily revenue intake around five figures — a day. They are currently ranked in the top 2,600 websites globally as well as being in the top 700 domestically. The behemoth ‘fact-checker’ is nowhere near being broke.

However, thanks to a dirty divorce between David Mikkelson and his ex-wife Barbara Mikkelson, the company has turned into a glorious shit show.

If you read their GoFundMe page, David alleges the site is being “held hostage” by a “vendor” it contracted with in 2015 and ended its ties with this spring. He claims that the Snopes site and this “vendor” are engaged in a legal battle that could eliminate their “financial means to continue operating the site and paying our staff (not to mention covering our legal fees) in the meanwhile.”

Read more: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/snopes-begs-money-gofundme/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

Part of the Read more:


As Claire Bernish so eloquently pointed out last year, one point incontestably underpinning the personal battle behind the scenes at the company demands an urgent question — with money as the seemingly only motivator, can the public ever be assured Snopes’ checked facts are accurate at all?
Hmm, let's see, where could that money have come from?




They protected certain industries, including Big Pharma and Big Ag... Snopes will attack anything in the alternative media

[Created4]

Hmm, let's see, where could that money have come from?

From: Snopes Exposed: A Look at the “Fake News” Watch Dogs (http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/snopes-exposed-a-look-at-the-fake-news-industry/)


Snopes claims to be unbiased with no outside influence, and yet, as news reports recently revealed through the divorce proceedings of David Mikkelson from his former wife Barbara, he was receiving a salary of $240,000.00 a year, and believed he should be earning $720,000.00 a year, while maintaining bank accounts in excess of millions of dollars.

If this simple Internet website does not receive outside influence, where is all this money coming from?