{"id":272,"date":"2021-08-13T22:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T02:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2021-08-13T22:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T02:17:19","slug":"snopes-co-founder-a-plagiarist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/snopes-co-founder-a-plagiarist\/","title":{"rendered":"Snopes Co-Founder A Plagiarist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This one <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/13\/banned-snopes-co-founder-plagiarized-dozens-of-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is disappointing<\/a>. Even his excuse that he didn&#8217;t have a journalism background is sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">Sometimes the facts are stranger than fiction \u2014 and sometimes the facts are plagiarized. The co-founder of myth-debunking website Snopes has been exposed as a plagiarist, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation. David Mikkelson, who launched Snopes in 1995 with a mission to be \u201cthe internet\u2019s definitive fact-checking site,\u201d was suspended by his company, Doreen Marchionni, Snopes\u2019 VP of editorial and its managing editor, confirmed to BuzzFeed, after their reporters uncovered no less than 54 plagiarized articles by Mikkelson.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is disappointing. Even his excuse that he didn&#8217;t have a journalism background is sad. Sometimes the facts are stranger than fiction \u2014 and sometimes the facts are plagiarized. The co-founder of myth-debunking website Snopes has been exposed as a plagiarist, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation. David Mikkelson, who launched Snopes in 1995 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/snopes-co-founder-a-plagiarist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snopes Co-Founder A Plagiarist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}