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<blockquote data-quote="Ou812fu" data-source="post: 4962815" data-attributes="member: 76481">Here is your fact checking site that you so desperately rely on... “Fact-checking” site Snopes, guilty of PLAGIARISM cases by its own co-founder and the company’s CEO, own admission - FOUNDER SUSPENDED!The website’s co-founder has just been caught publishing dozens of plagiarized articles, why billing itself as the “internet’s definitive fact-checking resource.”In a statement on Friday, the site acknowledged that between 2014 and 2018, the site’s co-founder David Mikkelson published “more than two dozen” stories taken from other news sites, under the pseudonyms “Jeff Zarronandia” or the generic “Snopes Staff.”According to Buzzfeed, Mikkelson stole articles to save time and “speed up traffic” to his site. Beyond the two dozen or so articles initially identified, some 140 articles are now under investigation by Snopes, and more than 50 have been found to contain plagiarized elements, forcing them to be retracted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ou812fu, post: 4962815, member: 76481"] Here is your fact checking site that you so desperately rely on... “Fact-checking” site Snopes, guilty of PLAGIARISM cases by its own co-founder and the company’s CEO, own admission - FOUNDER SUSPENDED! The website’s co-founder has just been caught publishing dozens of plagiarized articles, why billing itself as the “internet’s definitive fact-checking resource.” In a statement on Friday, the site acknowledged that between 2014 and 2018, the site’s co-founder David Mikkelson published “more than two dozen” stories taken from other news sites, under the pseudonyms “Jeff Zarronandia” or the generic “Snopes Staff.” According to Buzzfeed, Mikkelson stole articles to save time and “speed up traffic” to his site. Beyond the two dozen or so articles initially identified, some 140 articles are now under investigation by Snopes, and more than 50 have been found to contain plagiarized elements, forcing them to be retracted. [/QUOTE]

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