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In 1994, [8] [9] [10] David and Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become Snopes.com. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly presented search results of user discussions based at first on their contributions to the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) where they'd been active. [11]
Owned by American Review LLC of Miami, the same company that owns American News (americannews.com), Conservative 101 and Liberal Society. [12] [14] Liberal Society LiberalSociety.com Defunct Published a fake direct quote attributed to Obama, Falsely claimed that the White House fired Kellyanne Conway. [11] [12] [14]
AFP Fact Check from Agence France-Presse: originally launched in France in 2017, now global and available in multiple languages. ICFN signatory. Facebook partner. [208] [211] [212] Check Your Fact, IFCN signatory and Facebook partner owned by The Daily Caller but editorially independent. [213] [214]
David Mikkelson, the co-founder and CEO of Snopes, the well-known online fact-checker, has apologized and admitted to “serious lapses in judgement” for plagiarizing more than 50 articles.
In 2015, Richmond co-founded an adtech platform called Proper Media. Its first official client was Snopes.com, the largest and oldest fact-checking website on the web. [9] After a year, Proper Media purchased [10] a significant stake in Snopes.com. There was a legal dispute [11] regarding whether Proper Media purchased 50% or 40% of Snopes.com ...
The CEO and co-founder of Snopes.com, the fact-checking source commonly utilized by social media giant Facebook, has apologized for plagiarizing from articles published on mainstream news outlets ...
Fake news websites deliberately publish hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation to drive web traffic inflamed by social media. [8] [9] [10] These sites are distinguished from news satire as fake news articles are usually fabricated to deliberately mislead readers, either for profit or more ambiguous reasons, such as disinformation campaigns.
More about Facebook, Fake News, Fact Check, Snopes, and Tech In a post published Friday, the fact-checking organization Snopes announced that it would no longer work with Facebook to fact-check ...