From the Daily Kos came this dire call to arms….

Snopes.com may shut down permanently
A few minutes ago, I needed to check out the validity of a story at Snopes.com and along the way, I was shocked to see that the site may be shutting down for good.

For me, Snopes.com is one of the best fact checkers in the world, second only to Wonder Woman’s rope.

At a time when the country has to deal with alternative facts and a leader of the country whose chief export is lying lies, we need every truth teller and fact checker we can find.
— Daily Kos, 7/24/17

Seriously, “fact checking” is not that big a deal. Then again if you’re lazy and need to be spoon fed, going to Snopes has always been the easy way out.

Our legal team is fighting hard for us, but, having been cut off from all revenue, we are facing the prospect of having no financial means to continue operating the site and paying our staff (not to mention covering our legal fees) in the meanwhile.
— “SaveSnopes” GoFundMe page

Laura’s instinctive go-to is the Facebook accounts of the primaries involved. Their narcissism and need for attention exposes them almost every time.

As it looks like it takes a lot to keep up with David Mikkelson and wife Elyssa Young’s (currently listed as a Snopes “Admin Assistant”) financial responsibilities, let your own eyes determine their genuine level of need.

Judging by some of the above pics, did you get the impression the Mikkelsons like to eat out?

European Food Trip 2017 (Ra Martinez is one of the Snopes interns)

Thanks to those who generously donated to the GoFundMe campaign to keep them from going “broke”, it looks like the Mikkelsons will be able to maintain that lifestyle they’re accustomed to because as long as there are ignorant liberals, the dollar figure below will keep climbing.

Fact-Checker Snopes.com Met Its $500,000 Crowdfunding Goal In A Day

As we ARE talking about sanctimonious liberals without conscience, here’s a fact check of just whom we’re dealing with here.

Facebook ‘fact checker’ who will arbitrate on ‘fake news’ is accused of defrauding website to pay for prostitutes – and its staff includes an escort-porn star and ‘Vice Vixen domme’

SO, was Snopes really going broke or was this a slick excuse for a fundraiser so David Mikkelson and Elyssa Young “Erin O’Bryn” Mikkelson can not only meet payroll but maintain an opulent lifestyle?

Speaking of “Erin O’Bryn”, when you click on the link, you get a brief runaround and with good reason.

According to “Whois Secretbenefits.com”, Secretbenefits is owned by PRIVACYDOTLINK CUSTOMER 3776160 since 2018. Secretbenefits was registered with Uniregistrar Corp on August 06, 2014. PRIVACYDOTLINK CUSTOMER 3776160 resides in SEVEN MILE BEACH, Cayman Islands and their email is 3776160@PRIVACY-LINK.COM.
— whois.easycounter.com

Hmm… like the Southern Poverty Law Center, liberal nonprofits tend to like stashing their money in the Caymans and the Mikkelsons DO like to travel, so a slight detour is entirely possible. If Mrs. Mikkelson is still involved in her former trade on the side, those who donated might be slightly taken aback, but back to the original issue.

One could advise the primaries not to spend on fairly frequent and vacations while the business is on shaky ground. Then again, we are talking about social liberals who claim to be keeping us all on the straight and narrow.

The Poynter Institute let the cat out of the bag.

Snopes met its $500K fundraising goal. Now what?
In one day, Snopes received more than $500,000 worth of donations from nearly 20,000 people on GoFundMe in order to keep its doors open.

“Stunned and humbled by this. The money is incredibly helpful. The support is priceless,” Managing Editor Brooke Binkowski wrote in a tweet Tuesday. “We won’t forget. Thank you.”

And “forget” they sure as hell didn’t.

One would think after successfully reaching their goal, Snopes would gratefully end their GoFundMe campaign. Then again, as long as there are lazy sycophants, Snopes will keep their hands out for the cash.

So now that they’re out of the red, what exactly is Snopes using the money for?

“The money we raised will be used to meet our basic operating expenses, the overwhelming bulk of which is the salaries of our staff,” Snopes founder David Mikkelson told Poynter in an email Tuesday.

And a modest vacation from time to time.

One of the first questions to be asked is are Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg even qualified to screen ‘news’?

Don’t let a valid question get in the way of power-hungry narcissists.

Facebook is going to start fact-checking, labeling, and burying fake news and hoaxes in its News Feed, the company said Thursday.

A team of Facebook researchers will also review website domains and send sites that appear to be fake or spoofed (like “washingtonpost.co”) to third-party fact checkers, a Facebook spokesperson said. Of the 42 news organizations that have committed to Poynter’s fact-checking code of ethics, Facebook is starting out with the following four: Snopes, Factcheck.org, ABC News, and PolitiFact.
— Business Insider, 12/15/16

So, how is Facebook going to do this?

To combat fake news, Facebook has teamed up with a shortlist of media organizations, including Snopes and ABC News, that are part of an international fact-checking network led by Poynter, a nonprofit school for journalism in St. Petersburg, Florida.

We’re not sure how Snopes achieved the ultimate in fact-checking status.

Facebook ‘fact checker’ (Snopes) who will arbitrate on ‘fake news’ is accused of defrauding website to pay for prostitutes – and its staff includes an escort-porn star and ‘Vice Vixen domme’

Whoops.

Many news organizations have had their share of journalistic faux pas, but we’re now being informed of this “fact-checking network led by Poynter”?

The topic of funding is on the table because of the following paragraph on the Poynter website….

We are transparent about our funding sources. If we accept funding from other organizations, we ensure that funders have no influence over the conclusions we reach in our reports. We detail the professional background of all key figures in our organization and explain our organizational structure and legal status. We clearly indicate a way for readers to communicate with us.
— International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers’ code of principles

Over the years during debates with hostiles, liberals are quick to demand to know where a conservative gets their funding, yet when asked about where said liberal gets their funding, we’re told to go to a website where the funding normally isn’t disclosed.

And does THIS look like a detailed “professional background” of their faculty?

Aside from an “ethics” report where they brag about getting a $1 million donation from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark to “fund a faculty chair in journalism ethics”, there’s no readily available funding disclosure on the Poynter website while they appear to expect that of others.

Craigslist in the same sentence as “ethics” could almost be a bad punchline.

Even more suspicious is what happened when we attempted to get some numbers from nonprofit watchdog sites on Poynter….

We’ve always been rightfully suspicious of non-profit liberal career mills where good intentions trump a lack of mission accomplishment while very generous salaries are paid in abundance. We DID manage to find an insight as to why funding numbers and donors may be an inconvenient truth….

A new course on Islam designed for journalists tries to minimize the impact and importance of ”jihad” by comparing it to the number of murders in America each year. That same course claims ”right-wing activists” tried to tie American Muslims to terrorism and doesn’t mention examples of Islamic attacks on press freedom.

That’s the way a prominent news organization is teaching journalists in a three-hour online course. The Poynter News University, part of the Poynter Institute, launched the free course ”Covering Islam in America” to guide the media on their coverage of Muslim communities.

The George Soros-funded Social Science Research Council, which received $50,000 from the Open Society Institute ”For Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation,” is one of the groups behind the initiative, along with the Social Science Research Council at Washington State University. That fits with a theme for liberal financier Soros, who has spent more than $52 million on influencing the media. The Islamic course also links to another Soros-funded entity, the well-financed Center for American Progress.

This course is “A project of The Poynter Institute funded by The Knight Foundation.” Soros’s Open Society Foundations have worked closely with The Knight Foundation. They partnered up to start the Investigative News Network, which received $200,000 from the Knight Foundation and $100,000 from the Poynter Institute. The Knight Foundations President and CEO, Alberto Ibarguen, is also on the board for AOL and yet another key Soros backed group, the progressive investigative reporting start-up ProPublica.
— Media Research Center

Aside from a place where people see a news story and re-post it as if they were the insightful that found it in the first place, people should just use Facebook as a place to share your vacation and family pics.

UPDATE:

Is Snopes.com Really Going Broke While the Mikkelsons Live Large?