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Founder of Snopes.com
Snopes is owned and operated under Snopes, Inc., a subsidiary of Snopes Media Group, Inc., which current disclosures say is owned by Chris Richmond (60%) and Drew Schoentrup (40%) after they acquired ...
Snopes is a privately owned digital fact‑checking outlet operated under Snopes Media Group, Inc., ; the site funds operations mainly through programmatic advertising, paid memberships, direct contribu...
Snopes remains one of the most prominent online fact-checking sites, with multiple independent assessments finding while critics point to episodes of bias, plagiarism, and managerial turmoil that comp...
Snopes was the center of a protracted ownership and legal fight beginning in 2017 that involved Proper Media and Bardav Inc.; that dispute led Snopes to solicit public donations in 2017 and culminated...
David and Barbara Mikkelson were the founders of Snopes and central figures in U.S. fact‑checking for decades, but their amid plagiarism, litigation, and ownership changes. Different sources show Davi...
The available materials do not establish any verified, high-profile controversies specific to the founders of Factually.co, and the evidence in hand primarily concerns similarly named or related fact-...
Claims that “Snopes is a leftwing hacker” are not supported by the sourced record: multiple fact‑checking outlets and profiles describe Snopes as a long‑running fact‑checking site that has been evalua...
Snopes’ stated editorial independence rests on a mix of diversified revenue (advertising, reader contributions, memberships) and explicit disclosure rules, while its ownership history and episodic pla...
David and Barbara Mikkelson founded Snopes in the mid‑1990s and spent the late 1990s and 2000s documenting and debunking a wide variety of viral urban legends, doctored images and politically charged ...
David and Barbara Mikkelson’s divorce triggered a prolonged ownership and legal battle that materially disrupted Snopes’ finances, leadership, and partnerships: Barbara sold her stake to Proper Media,...
David and Barbara Mikkelson co‑founded what became Snopes in 1994 as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, and the site grew into one of the earliest and most widely used online fact‑checking resources, ...
David and Barbara Mikkelson founded the site that became Snopes in 1994 after collaborating on Usenet’s alt.folklore.urban; David is described repeatedly as having a technical/computer background and ...
Barbara Mikkelson’s in the provided source set; multiple records refer to her by the married name she used while co-founding Snopes with David Mikkelson. The clearest biographical detail in these sour...
David and Barbara Mikkelson’s professions before founding Snopes cannot be confirmed from the dataset you provided: none of the supplied items include relevant biographical details about the Mikkelson...