I mentioned this years ago. A married couple sat at their kitchen table and fact-checked everything on the internet.
You didn't believe something? Just go to SNOPES and they'll straighten ya out.
HA!!
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Snopes co-founder banned for plagiarizing dozens of stories on fact-checking site
Sometimes the facts are stranger than fiction — and sometimes the facts are plagiarized.
The co-founder of myth-debunking website Snopes has been exposed as a plagiarist, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation.
David Mikkelson, who launched Snopes in 1995 with a mission to be “the internet’s definitive fact-checking site,” was suspended by his company, Doreen Marchionni, Snopes’ VP of editorial and its managing editor, confirmed to BuzzFeed, after their reporters uncovered no less than 54 plagiarized articles by Mikkelson.
“Let us be clear: Plagiarism undermines our mission and values, full stop,” Marchionni said in a statement on Friday. “It has no place in any context within this organization.”
In response to the investigation, Mikkelson said, “There is no excuse for my serious lapses in judgement. I’m sorry.”
BuzzFeed wrote that Mikkelson’s Snopes posts contained phrasing — even entire paragraphs — lifted from outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC between 2015 and 2019, often under the byline “Snopes staff” or while using the pseudonym Jeff Zarronandia.
“Zarronandia” was illustriously described in his Snopes bio as a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and someone talented at “mule-skinning,” whose seemingly informed stories on everything from arts and culture to national politics had in the past drawn ridicule from the likes of former Donald Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone, BuzzFeed said.
http://nypost.com/2021/08/13/banned-snopes-co-founder-plagiarized-dozens-of-stories/
HE'S GOT THE KIND OF FACE THAT YOU WANT TO HIT WITH A BLOODY BRICK.
Oh, neeeeeeeeeeeemoooooooooooooooo and Deeeeeeeeeeee
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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