Snopes Plagiarism
FILE – This Sept. 25, 2018 file photo shows David Mikkelson, founder of Snopes, the site that tracks fakery on the web, in his home office in Tacoma, Wash. The co-founder, CEO and a major shareholder of the fact-checking site admitted to plagiarizing from dozens of articles done by mainstream news outlets over several years, calling the appropriations “serious lapses in judgment.” From 2015 to 2019, and possibly even earlier, Mikkelson included material lifted from the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and others to scoop up web traffic, according to BuzzFeed News, which broke the story Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times via AP, File)