{"id":279785,"date":"2017-07-26T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T13:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=279785"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T13:05:24","slug":"who-owns-snopes-fracas-over-fact-checking-site-now-front-and-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=279785","title":{"rendered":"Who owns Snopes? Fracas over fact-checking site now front and center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> David Mikkelson, the founder of Snopes, seen here at the US Embassy in Vienna, in June 2017. (credit: US Embassy Vienna<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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As of Tuesday evening, Snopes.com<\/a>, one of the Internet\u2019s most longstanding fact-checking websites, successfully raised over $600,000<\/a> in less than 48 hours\u2014an effort to stay afloat while an ugly legal battle is underway.<\/p>\n

Snopes\u2019 founder, David Mikkelson, told Ars in a lengthy phone interview that a Web development company, Proper Media, and two of its founders have essentially held the website “hostage<\/a>” for months, keeping both data and money that should have gone to Snopes\u2019 parent company, Bardav.<\/p>\n

Bardav and Proper Media, which also runs other websites including TVTropes.org, made a business deal together that Bardav then cancelled in March 2017. Proper Media\u00a0sued<\/a> in May, alleging breach of contract, among other allegations. Mikkelson and Bardav countersued<\/a> in June 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ David Mikkelson, the founder of Snopes, seen here at the US Embassy in Vienna, in June 2017. (credit: US Embassy Vienna) As of Tuesday evening, Snopes.com, one of the Internet\u2019s most longstanding fact-checking websites, successfully raised over $600,000 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-279785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}