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Facebook "face checker" who will arbitrate on "fake news"

Posted: Dec 21, 2016

website to pay for prostitutes - and its staff includes an escort-porn star and "Vice Vixen dome" One of the websites Facebook is to use to arbitrate on 'fake news' is involved in a bitter legal dispute between its co-founders, with its CEO accused of using company money for prostitutes. Snopes.com was founded by husband-and-wife Barbara and David Mikkelson, who used a letterhead claiming they were a non-existent society to start their research. Now they are divorced - with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on himself and prostitutes. Snopes.com will be part of a panel used by Facebook to decide whether stories which users complain about as potentially 'fake' should be considered 'disputed'. But the website's own troubles and the intriguing choice of who carries out its 'fact checks' are revealed by DailyMail.com, as one of its main contributors is disclosed to be a former sex-blogger who called herself 'Vice Vixen'. Snopes.com will benefit from Facebook's decision to allow users to report items in their newsfeed which they believe to be 'fake'. It is asking a number of organizations to arbitrate on items which are reported or which Facebook staff think may not be genuine, and decide whether they should be marked as 'disputed'. ;

No one believes Snopes anyway, unless you're a - Liberal Democrat. You simply

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cannot make up this kind of stuff. And these are the arbiters of what is "fake news" and what is "real news"? Headshake.

Someone should go to Snopes and ask "did the Snopes - founder steal money from Snopes to pay

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for hookers” and see what kind of answer you get.

They've been caught butchering the truth many times. - NM

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Has someone checked this on Snopes? - LOL! Couldn't resist.

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Let us decide on Facebook - what is news

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Kind of a yes or now button on whether something is news or not. This morning, under political news is that Anthony Bourdain will not eat at Trumps restaurant. Seriously, folks - this is news????? and, it's political news????? Why isn't there a real news icon? Where do they put the world news - the important stuff - like what is going on in Aleppo? Does anyone at Facebook even have a clue what is going on outside their bubble?

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