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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on December 27, 2016, 06:54:24 AM
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http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/snopes-co-founders-divorce-papers-embezzlement-and-prosititues/
Oh my.
Ichingcarpenter (2320 posts) December 27, 2016 at 4:05 am
Snopes Co founders divorce papers..embezzlement and prosititues
According to court procedings
It was founded by husband-and-wife Barbara and David Mikkelson, who used a letterhead claiming they were a non-existent society to start their research
Now they are divorced – with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on ‘himself and prostitutes’
In a lengthy and bitter legal dispute he is claiming to be underpaid and demanding ‘industry standard’ or at least $360,000 a year
The two also dispute what are basic facts of their case – despite Snopes.com saying its ‘ownership’ is committed to ‘accuracy and impartiality’
Snopes.com founder David Mikkelson’s new wife Elyssa Young is employed by the website as an administrator
She has worked as an escort and porn actress and despite claims website is non-political ran as a Libertarian for Congress on a ‘Dump Bush’ platform
Its main ‘fact checker’ is Kimberly LaCapria, whose blog ‘ViceVixen’ says she is in touch with her ‘domme side’ and has posted on Snopes.com while smoking pot
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4042194/Facebook-fact-checker-arbitrate-fake-news-accused-defrauding-website-pay-prostitutes-staff-includes-escort-porn-star-Vice-Vixen-domme.html#ixzz4U2UuD2w2
I'm not sure, but isn't the (ex)wife of the pair a dead ringer for the late Andrea Dvorkin?
LiberalElite (2998 posts) (Reply to original post) December 27, 2016 at 4:09 am
1. I always wondered why
Snopes became the go-to for verifying anything. Who said Snopes was on the up n’ up?
Downwinder (1447 posts) (Reply to LiberalElite - post #1) December 27, 2016 at 4:21 am
2. Acceptance by SV should have been a hint.
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Hmmm...the wife went under the name Erin O'Bryn?
Google her for images (NSFW). Not bad. Are we supposed to be upset? I'm not, I'm appreciative.
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Hmmm...the wife went under the name Erin O'Bryn?
Google her for images (NSFW). Not bad. Are we supposed to be upset? I'm not, I'm appreciative.
But I was talking about ex-wife Babs, not the current wife.
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As best I could tell, all the pix of females are of current wife. She just hasn't, ummmmmm, aged well - rode hard, put away wet and any other equivalent cliches'. He should be afraid to learn who's been there before and how many. He'd better hope he's not allergic to penicillin.
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As best I could tell, all the pix of females are of current wife. She just hasn't, ummmmmm, aged well - rode hard, put away wet and any other equivalent cliches'. He should be afraid to learn who's been there before and how many. He'd better hope he's not allergic to penicillin.
LOL, well, women who advertise on social media as a "courtesan" usually don't age very well.
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LOL, well, women who advertise on social media as a "courtesan" usually don't age very well.
... if they manage to age at all.
Seems to me like that would be a pretty damn risky profession considering the types of "clients" you would be in contact with.
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... if they manage to age at all.
Seems to me like that would be a pretty damn risky profession considering the types of "clients" you would be in contact with.
Well, yeah! Look what she married! :rimshot: :bolt:
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Now they are divorced – with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on ‘himself and prostitutes’
If I had that kind of money, i would spend at least half on women and alcohol, the rest i'd waste.
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Did a search on Snopes for "Kimberly LaCapria"...
"Your search did not yield any results. Your search terms may need to be revised, or we have not written an article on that topic."
Some things just don't bear writing an article about!...
:)
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-daily-mail-snopes-story-and-fact-checking-the-fact-checkers/#59d421fa1e02
It seems that Snopes isn't denying too much of the Daily Mail article.
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Do JPR-folk have a grudge against the Snopes people? Or was it posted as general interest news?
I trust Snopes or FactCheck.org on political subjects like DU-folk trust NewsBusters.org.
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Do JPR-folk have a grudge against the Snopes people? Or was it posted as general interest news?
I trust Snopes or FactCheck.org on political subjects like DU-folk trust NewsBusters.org.
Manny's primitives don't like it because Skins's primitives do.
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Curiouser and curiouser...
"http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-daily-mail-snopes-story-and-fact-checking-the-fact-checkers/#59d421fa1e02
It seems that Snopes isn't denying too much of the Daily Mail article."
When I asked for comment on the specific detailed criteria Snopes uses to screen its applicants and decide who to hire as a fact checker, surprisingly David demurred, saying only that the site looks for applicants across all fields and skills. He specifically did not provide any detail of any kind regarding the screening process and how Snopes evaluates potential hires. David also did not respond to further emails asking whether, as part of the screening process, Snopes has applicants fact check a set of articles to evaluate their reasoning and research skills and to gain insight into their thinking process.
This was highly unexpected, as I had assumed that a fact checking site as reputable as Snopes would have a detailed written formal evaluation process for new fact checkers that would include having them perform a set of fact checks and include a lengthy set of interview questions designed to assess their ability to identify potential or perceived conflicts of interest and work through potential biases.
Even more strangely, despite asking in two separate emails how Snopes assesses its fact checkers and whether it performs intra- and inter-rater reliability assessments, David responded only that fact checkers work together collaboratively and did not respond to further requests for more detail and did not answer whether Snopes uses any sort of assessment scoring or ongoing testing process to assess its fact checkers.
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A very strong bogon farce field, G-g.