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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2987632" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>Hey remember when everyone claimed the Snoopes.com was the best place to verify something. Well, they aren't .</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/hookers-lies-and-fraud-snopes-in-danger-of-closing-doors/" target="_blank">‘Hookers, lies and fraud’: Snopes ‘in danger of closing doors’</a></p><p></p><p>So-called “fact-checking” website Snopes.com is reportedly on the verge of financial collapse since one if its founders has been accused of using company cash to fund his contentious divorce and to pay for fancy vacations with his new wife, a former escort and porn actress.</p><p></p><p>The financial situation has apparently become so dire that Snopes owner David Mikkelson launched a crowd-funding website to solicit donations, according to London’s Daily Mail. Readers contributed more than $500,000 in just the first 24 hours.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/phony-baloney-the-9-fakest-fake-news-checkers/" target="_blank">As WND has reported</a>, <a href="http://www.snopes.com/about-snopes/" target="_blank">Snopes.com</a>, a website that’s been around since 1995, is sometimes cited by other “fact-checking” sites to support their claims. Facebook has even indicated it plans to use Snopes as one of its arbiters of “fake news.” <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/facebook-fake-news-checker-embroiled-in-scandal/" target="_blank">But WND revealed</a> the site has been criticized by conservatives for a left-leaning bias and admits it has no standard procedure for fact-checking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2987632, member: 12952"] Hey remember when everyone claimed the Snoopes.com was the best place to verify something. Well, they aren't . [URL="http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/hookers-lies-and-fraud-snopes-in-danger-of-closing-doors/"]‘Hookers, lies and fraud’: Snopes ‘in danger of closing doors’[/URL] So-called “fact-checking” website Snopes.com is reportedly on the verge of financial collapse since one if its founders has been accused of using company cash to fund his contentious divorce and to pay for fancy vacations with his new wife, a former escort and porn actress. The financial situation has apparently become so dire that Snopes owner David Mikkelson launched a crowd-funding website to solicit donations, according to London’s Daily Mail. Readers contributed more than $500,000 in just the first 24 hours. [URL='http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/phony-baloney-the-9-fakest-fake-news-checkers/']As WND has reported[/URL], [URL='http://www.snopes.com/about-snopes/']Snopes.com[/URL], a website that’s been around since 1995, is sometimes cited by other “fact-checking” sites to support their claims. Facebook has even indicated it plans to use Snopes as one of its arbiters of “fake news.” [URL='http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/facebook-fake-news-checker-embroiled-in-scandal/']But WND revealed[/URL] the site has been criticized by conservatives for a left-leaning bias and admits it has no standard procedure for fact-checking. [/QUOTE]
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