Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding. Washington Post Fact Checker In an award-winning journalism career spanning nearly four decades, Glenn Kessler has covered foreign policy, economic policy, the White House, Congress, politics, airline safety and Wall Street.
He has been editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker since We always document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds. Snopes got its start in , investigating urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore. Founder David Mikkelson, later joined by his wife, was publishing online before most people were connected to the internet. As demand for reliable fact checks grew, so did Snopes.
Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics. SciCheck FactCheck. It was launched in January with a grant from the Stanton Foundation. David Mikkelson, the co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news.
But he has been lying to the site's tens of millions of readers : A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that between and , Mikkelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times.
After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material. The articles include such topics as same-sex marriage licenses and the death of musician David Bowie. Snopes told BuzzFeed News it plans to retract all of the offending stories and disable advertising on them.
It will also append an editor's note of explanation to each. Or was the mother of extremely advanced age? Meet Jeff Zarronandia. Plus it made it appear he had more staff than he had. Between and , Mikkelson regularly plagiarized reporting from other news outlets in an effort, he said, to scoop up traffic. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Mikkelson attributed this behavior to his lack of formal journalism experience. A number of times I crossed the line to where it was copyright infringement.
I own that. Founded in by Mikkelson and his then-wife, Barbara Hamel, Snopes bills itself as "the internet's definitive fact-checking site," and is a two-time Webby Award winner cited by the likes of the New York Times and the Washington Post. But in recent years, the site has been troubled by a bitter ownership dispute.
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Mikkelson said that he created the Zarronandia pseudonym as a joke intended to mislead the trolls and conspiracy theorists who frequently targeted the site and its writers in the run-up to the US presidential election.
Knowingly misleading readers by using a fake name is considered unethical for many news outlets — especially one that markets itself as a bulwark of truth and transparency.
Far worse is plagiarism. I hated it and wouldn't tell any of the staff to do it, but he did it all the time. One, who asked to remain anonymous, told BuzzFeed News that "taking credit for other people's work" was "part of his model. Snopes pulled out of a fact-checking partnership with Facebook earlier this year, choosing not to renew its contract. Mr Mikkelson had co-founded Snopes with his then wife Barbara.
The couple divorced and Barbara sold her share of Snopes' parent company Bardev Inc to five individuals in who at that point were all associated with a company called Proper Media. But Mr Mikkelson is now locked in a litigation battle with a number of ex-business associates from the company regarding the commercial interests of the site with numerous court dates called. Snopes has been fundraising for money to help with its costs. While Mr Mikkelson is optimistic that Snopes will survive, he says that he doesn't know exactly what the site's future will look like until the dispute is resolved.
The site also comes under attack over the stories it covers and is regularly accused of being biased but Mr Mikkelson states this is "an occupational hazard" when a company is involved in fact-checking: "It doesn't matter how impartial you were, there is always some subset of the audience that is determined to believe what they want to believe.
But we're also a business with multiple employees now and it's a very different challenge to be heading up a business to operating a hobby site.
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