Snopes co-founder plagiarized dozens of articles between 2015 and 2019

[PeteS in CA]

Snopes co-founder plagiarized dozens of articles between 2015 and 2019

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/08/13/snopes-co-founder-plagiarized-dozens-of-articles-between-2015-and-1019-n408686

I thought Snopes had hit rock bottom when it started fact-checking the Babylon Bee, but apparently not. The co-founder and 50% owner of the fact-check site has admitted he plagiarized dozens of articles over the past several years. Some of the articles were published under a pseudonym.

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 2015 and 2019, Mikkelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times…

BuzzFeed News found dozens of articles on Snopes’ site that include language — sometimes entire paragraphs — that appear to have been copied without attribution from news outlets that include the New York Times, CNN, NBC News, and the BBC. Six of these articles were originally published under Zarronandia’s byline, three under Mikkelson’s own, and the rest under “Snopes staff.” Snopes’s subsequent internal review identified 140 articles with possible problems and 54 that were found to include appropriated material.

 

[mountaineer]

I'm really, really surprised.

[mountaineer]

Apology from Members of Snopes Senior Management
An internal review prompted by a BuzzFeed investigation found dozens of stories by our co-founder that appropriated material from other news organizations.
    Doreen Marchionni
    Vinny Green
    Published 13 August 2021   

In late July/early August, members of this company began a comprehensive internal investigation into allegations of plagiarism leveled against Snopes Founder/CEO David Mikkelson after a journalist got in touch with us about his own research for a story. ...

We want to thank Jones for his reporting. It’s an example of dogged, watchdog journalism we cherish. Our staff has moved quickly to fix the problem, and we now want to share with our community what we have done:

    *Marchionni suspended Mikkelson from all editorial production pending a final outcome to the internal review and removed his access to our content management system, WordPress, for story production/publishing.
    *Expanding on Jones’ findings for BuzzFeed, Green flagged all 140 news articles under the generic bylines for review and identified other possible issues beyond Buzzfeed’s findings.
    *A staff reporter, who also works as an adjunct journalism professor, examined each flagged post for plagiarism. Marchionni then verified her initial findings with the help of plagiarism detection software.Our internal research so far has found a total of 54 stories Mikkelson published that used appropriated material, including all of the stories BuzzFeed shared with us.
    *On Snopes.com, the offending content will be removed while the page itself will remain accessible. ... Read entire thing at Snopes

 

[Wingnut]

Snopes investigating Mickleson is like  CNN's Fredo Cuomo reporting on his brother Guido.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Did he used to write for The Boston Globe?  Their writers have a history of plagiarism and fabricating stories.

https://transparencynow.com/globe.htm

[mystery-ak]

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States
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The CEO of Snopes was just suspended for lying

[libertybele]

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States
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The CEO of Snopes was just suspended for lying

Good. It's about time! Snopes has been an unreliable source of truth of facts for a very, very long time.

[BassWrangler]

Snopes co-founder plagiarized dozens of articles between 2015 and 2019

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/08/13/snopes-co-founder-plagiarized-dozens-of-articles-between-2015-and-1019-n408686


 

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