YSK Snopes.com was taken over by investors
YSK Snopes.com was taken over by investors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes#Change_of_ownership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Richmond_(entrepreneur)#Snopes.com_lawsuit
https://www.wired.com/story/snopes-and-the-search-for-facts-in-a-post-fact-world/
https://www.courthousenews.com/fact-checker-snopes-owners-accused-corporate-subterfuge/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220923232402/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/snopes-co-owners-acquire-remaining-140000348.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovrn_Holdings
Snopes.com has been thought of as a reputable and trusted site for fact-checking.
From 2016 to 2022, the original mom-and-pop owners were sued out of their company in what was described as a "hostile takeover".
Snopes is now owned as a for-profit "programmatic advertising business".
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The suit that took it away, not from the mom and pop owners. “Mom” already sold her half:
Mikkelson and his ex-wife Barbara founded Bardav – which owns the Snopes website – in 2003, and each owned a 50 percent shared in the company. When the two divorced, Barbara Mikkelson sold her share to Proper Media last July.
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“Mikkelson, in conjunction with Green, intentionally did block Proper Media’s access to personnel, accounts, tools and data to take over Snopes and to prevent Proper Media from performing under the general services agreement,” Proper Media says in its lawsuit.
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The company also accuses Mikkelson of misusing Bardav funds and says he was improperly reimbursed for legal fees related to his divorce and travel expenses from when he went on a honeymoon to Asia late last year with his new bride – Snopes employee Elyssa Young.
She sold her shares “last July”. He went on is honeymoon “last year”. Dad’s dick ruined the last good thing on the internet.
And the current twoowners spent five years getting all shares back.
Snopes is 100% owned by Snopes Media Group.
Sovrn holdings does not own Snopes.
Not that I don't believe a random person on the Internet, but I don't believe a random person on the Internet: Any chance you could provide us with some sources about that?
I'm not the one making the claim, but sure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Richmond_(entrepreneur)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/snopes-co-owners-acquire-remaining-140000348.html
https://www.snopes.com/disclosures/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/business/media/snopes-plagiarism-David-Mikkelson.html
https://www.snopes.com/2021/08/13/apology-from-senior-management/
This is all readily available information. I'm not making claims based on theories as a post in /youshouldknow either.
You should be asking OP to prove their claims.
Thanks, OP is also a random person on the Internet but the sources are appreciated by all.
Sure, but this is youshouldknow not ivegotaconspiracytheory.
Facts are important for a claim like they are making.
I would agree, however it would seem they have edited their post and included sources.
They already had sources which pointed to nothing.
The claims are baseless. I welcome an actual source for their claim - the only response was "But they had an ad company!".
Meaningless relative to claims.