It appears that one of Facebook’s fact checkers is themselves guilty of fact deception of the highest order in journalism, plagarizm. But this fact checker is none ofther then the CEO and co-founder of the legendary go-to fact-check source for Facebook, Snopes. That man is David Mikkelson, who under a pen name, wrote and published over 50 articles that were peppered with material allegededly plagarized by others.
Facebook fact-checker caught plagiarizing 54 articles
From winteryknight.com
2021-08-16 14:00:52
Wintery Knight
Excerpt:
Facebook uses fact-checkers to censor speech they disagree with. These fact-checkers (Lead Stories, Snopes, Politifact, Factcheck.org, Science Feedback) are often biased and unprofessional people. Many of them are just losers who dropped math in grade 9, and partied their way through journalism “school” while half drunk.
The Post Millenial explains:
On Friday, it was revealed that the co-founder and CEO of the popular fact-checking site Snopes David Mikkelson has been writing articles using plagiarized content under a pseudonym for years.
A Buzzfeed News investigation found that Mikkelson wrote and published over 50 articles containing plagiarized material between 2015 and 2019.
“After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material,” wrote Buzzfeed.
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