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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. We are always going to be here one way or another. Fact-checking site gets lifeline after donation drive.
Key fact-checkers stop working with Facebook. David Mikkelson by his computer monitor with a doctored photo in the early days of Snopes. Is Facebook winning the fake news war? Org is the Center for Responsive Politics' nonpartisan guide to money's influence on U. MBFC rates it as dead-center least biased and very high on factual reporting, noting that it is a source for fact checkers. Lead Stories uses the Trendolizer to track story trends and debunk fake news before it becomes viral.
They are often the first to debunk outrageous claims with "hoax alerts. IFCN signatory. Ballotpedia is a nonprofit and nonpartisan encyclopedia, sponsored by the Lucy Burns Institute , designed to connect people to politics utilizing a neutral point-of-view philosophy.
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