The CEO of fact-checking site Snopes was caught plagiarizing dozens of articles
- Snopes CEO and cofounder David Mikkelson plagiarized dozens of stories, BuzzFeed reports.
- Mikkelson was also writing plagiarized Snopes content under a pseudonym: “Jeff Zarronandia.”
- He isn’t stepping down as Snopes CEO, but did issue an apology.
Snopes, the website that advertises itself as, “the internet’s definitive fact-checking resource,” is facing a major plagiarism scandal: The site’s CEO and cofounder, David Mikkelson, just admitted to plagiarizing dozens of Snopes articles.
That’s according to a BuzzFeed News investigation that first discovered the plagiarized works. When Snopes investigated, it found a whopping 54 pieces in total that included plagiarism. That investigation remains ongoing, according to the company.
“Plagiarism undermines our mission and values, full stop,” Snopes executives said in a statement. “It has no place in any context within this organization.
To that end, Mikkelson’s publishing rights have been revoked. He remains a 50% shareholder and the company’s CEO.
For years I have been telling folks who would tell me the statements we discussed had to be true because SNOPES said so, was BULLSHIT! They were / are left wing nuts posing as unbiased arbitrators of the right and wrong in this world. They are as biased as Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumicky Shumer, J. Nadler, Schiff, etc.
There was a lot of information a long time ago about snopes being biased, now maybe people will see the issue here, then again maybe they do not care.