"Well, this just takes the big fat hypocrite cake.
Out today, the Daily Mail is reporting that Snopes, the supposed bastion of fact checking, is no longer the picture perfect “independent” (yeah right) husband and wife myth-busting couple just lounging around on the couch with their cat that they have claimed to be.
Snopes founders, former husband and wife David and Barbara Mikkelson
Gee… Where to begin…
According to court documents, Barbara Mikkelson is claiming that her now-ex-husband David embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on “himself and prostitutes”...
...The Mail reports that David is currently running Snopes with his new wife who has spent most of her life working as an adult model, porn star, and escort under the name Erin O’Bryn:
...This goes on and on and on… but it continues by pointing out that one of their main “fact checkers” Kim LaCapria “has also been a sex-and-fetish blogger who went by the pseudonym ‘Vice Vixen’.”
Now we’re told Snopes has become part of the “fact checking” cadre that will weed out so-called “fake news” on Facebook?
Oh goodie. Sounds legit.
This expose comes on the heels of the Daily Caller taking Snopes’ entire left-leaning crew to task just a few days ago, pointing out how obviously liberal and biased all of them are with specifics for each employee in a piece titled, “Snopes, Which Will Be Fact-Checking For Facebook, Employs Leftists Almost Exclusively”:
Almost all of the writers churning out fact checks for Snopes have a liberal background, and many of them have expressed contempt for Republican voters. The Daily Caller could not identify a single Snopes fact-checker who comes from a conservative background. Snopes did not respond to a list of questions from TheDC regarding the site’s ideological leaning..."
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