Brooke Binkowski, David
Mikkelson & Elyssa Young
There was a time I would consult Snopes when I questioned
the validity of a fact or a scam chain-email and such. Then I began to notice
ideologically Conservative websites or people who I knew exuded valid truths
were receiving false Snopes bunking or Snopes would twist facts to make a
Conservative truth to appear false.
Then I realized the majority of noted fact-checkers were
bent to the Left and would impugn facts from Conservatives exposing nefarious
Left-Wing crimes as absolutely false even after what was verifiably known
pointed toward illegal smoke. And regardless of Leftist obfuscation or down-right
lies, where there is smoke there is fire.
Tim Brown exposes some nefarious smoke about Snopes and its
current owner (and a founder) David Mikkelson. As you will read the smoke
involves Mikkelson’s ex-wife, embezzlement, sketchy company practices, new
wife porn star and cough Las Vegas escort (Elyssa
Young aka Erin O’Bryn)
and more that I can’t think of as of this writing.
JRH 8/3/18
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The Meltdown of Fake Fact Checkers Snopes Continues -
Managing Editor Has No Idea Why She Was Fired
By TIM BROWN
AUGUST 2, 2018
The people who have been assigned by the media and social
media outlets, as well as search engines like Google (just type something in
and pretty much, Snopes is at the top of the list), as being "fact
checkers" and champions of the truth will regret the day they put them on
such a pedestal.
Knowing that Snopes is not the most reliable source of
information on the internet and knowing they hire
such reputable people as hookers, porn stars and dominatrixes,
along with having a founder
who is accused of fraud, lies and putting prostitutes and his honeymoon on
expenses, it should come as no surprise that the left-leaning,
self-proclaimed "fact checkers" are actually having a serious
meltdown, and for many of us, it couldn't be sweeter.
The people who have been assigned by the media and social
media outlets, as well as search engines like Google (just type something in
and pretty much, Snopes is at the top of the list), as being "fact
checkers" and champions of the truth will regret the day they put them on
such a pedestal.
The latest word on Snopes comes from Poynter in a piece
titled "Snopes
Fired Its Managing Editor - And She Doesn't Know Why."
The irony is the Poynter promoted Snope's fundraiser, but failed to mention the
truth about the fake fact checkers.
First, Brooke Binkowski was burned
out.
Then, she was told that she had
been fired because of some unspecified complaints.
Finally, they said they were
eliminating her position altogether.
So by the time that Snopes
co-founder and CEO David Mikkelson called her last Monday to say she was fired,
Binkowski didn’t know what to believe.
“I honestly have no idea,” the
former Snopes managing editor told Poynter. “I was given no hints. I was never
written up for anything.”
Binkowski said her firing is just
the latest thing she doesn’t know about how Snopes works. Last summer, after
Snopes started raising money for a legal battle over the
site’s ownership, Binkowski said she wasn’t included in financial discussions.
Snopes’ GoFundMe had raised
more than $835,000, as of publication — not including the amount raised
from a separate PayPal account. While Snopes, one of the oldest and
most-read fact-checking projects in the world, discloses other
sources of funding on its website, the PayPal contributions weren’t listed as
of publication.
“No one knows how it works
internally — including me,” Binkowski said. “Even if everything is on the up
and up, the appearance is bad.”
This news was preceded by last year's reports that
about accusations
against Snopes founder David Mikkelson.
The Daily Mail carried the story in July 2017 noting:
·
'Fact-checking' website
Snopes is asking its users for help in a GoFundMe saying an 'outside vendor' is
'holding it hostage'
·
But the site which claims
to be 'transparent' and to tell people the facts they need to know hasn't told
those donating everything that is going on
·
In fact it is at the center
of a bitter legal battle with its CEO being accused of fraud, lies, conspiracy
and putting prostitutes and his honeymoon on expenses
·
David Mikkelson set up
company which owns Snopes.com in 2003 with then wife Barbara but she sold her
50 per cent stake during bitter divorce
·
Owners of company which
provided it with tech and advertising services bought her stake but have now
fallen out with Mikkelson and call him a fraudster
·
Case could see judge order
site closed - despite it being chosen by Facebook to arbitrate on fake news
The DM pointed out:
Fact-checking website Snopes is on
the verge of financial collapse after its owner was accused of embezzling
company funds to pay for his contentious divorce battle and lavish overseas
trips with his new wife, a former Las Vegas escort and porn actress.
...
After the presidential election,
Snopes was chosen by Facebook to sit on a panel of arbiters who would determine
whether news stories posted to the social media site were 'fake news.'
But at the same time, DailyMail.com revealed in
December, the two co-founders were involved in a bitter divorce battle in which
he was accused of embezzling nearly $100,000 in company funds to spend on
personal expenses and prostitutes.
Barbara asked a court at the time
to restrict Mikkelson's bank access, claiming his wild spending was going to
deplete the company's accounts.
Court documents from their divorce
and its aftermath revealed that he wanted to be paid $720,000 a year.
He is also accused of spending
'tens of thousands of dollars' on personal trips, including a honeymoon with
his new wife to Tokyo Disneyland.
The lawsuit claims Mikkelson spent
money on Young, who he married last year.
Young was an escort in Las Vegas up
until at least 2015 and charged $500 per hour, according to her website.
She has also starred in adult films
under the name 'Erin O'Bryn,' and ran unsuccessfully for congress in Hawaii as
a Libertarian in 2004.
Now, if I was rejoicing in evil, it would be wrong (1
Corinthians 13:6), but this I do rejoice in this delicious news that an evil
entity known as Snopes, which has been promoted by the propaganda outlets in
America that are owned by six corporations, as well as the social media giants
of the day, may just be seeing the beginning of its demise, and rightfully so.
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Tim Brown is an author and Editor at FreedomOutpost.com, SonsOfLibertyMedia.com, GunsInTheNews.com and TheWashingtonStandard.com. He is husband to his "more precious than rubies"
wife, father of 10 "mighty arrows", jack of all trades, Christian and
lover of liberty. He resides in the U.S. occupied Great State of South
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