The post about debunking Snopes Pizzagate debunking is great. Snopes has also attempted to debunk some stories of sex trafficking http://www.snopes.com/cargo-container-women-savannah/ and http://www.snopes.com/tampa-target-trafficking-warning/ I put a comment on that earlier thread, but I think the character of the man who runs Snopes deserves a new thread. The owner of Snopes is a disreputable character who is now married to a porn star. He is being sued by his ex wife for embezzlement. He might be qualified to discredit some viral urban legend. In fact I think that discrediting such stuff is how he establishes credibility so that he is believed when discrediting real stories. He might also pick some sex trafficking story that is false and debunk it to set the tone that all such sex trafficking stories are untrue. However I don't think he has been able to discredit the stories of his messy divorce, the claims of his ex-wife, or the fact that he is married to a porn star/sex worker.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-22/snopes-co-founder-embezzles-98000-drops-weight-leaves-fat-wife-and-marries-actual-wh
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/snopes-co-founder-accused-of-embezzling-company-money-spending-it-on-prostitutes/
"The founder of mythbusting website Snopes, which was recently tapped by Facebook as one of four “fact-check” organizations patrolling the site for “fake news,” embezzled $98,000 in company funds before spending it on “himself and the prostitutes he hired,” according to legal documents filed by his ex-wife reviewed by the Daily Mail.
After divorcing from his first wife, Barbara Mikkelson, David Mikkelson married Elyssa Young, a former porn star and current escort who now works for Snopes as an administrator, according to the Daily Mail.
The Daily Mail also revealed that top Snopes “fact-checker” Kim LaCapria claimed on her personal blog that she has “posted to Snopes” after smoking marijuana. "
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Solentgreenispeople ago
Yoichi Shimatsu wrote interesting things about Snopes you might want to check out. he states the following:
http://www.rense.com/general96/strangedayspizza.htm
The Demimonde of Fact Checkers
In contrast to Mrs. Gutch’s due diligence, Snopes.com is a shining model of “sex workers being the best fact-checkers.” Doing double duty as dominatrices specializing in role reversal with their male clients, these cleverest debunkers of urban folklore are vouchsafed by no less than Facebook, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, and the Open Society Institute. An archive search of The New York Times and The Washington Post comes up with dozens of their articles citing Snopes.com as the unparalleled authority on “truth”, which in hindsight is doublespeak for the baldfaced lies that protect a devious and deviant Establishment.
The sick puppies of the mainstream press and politicized “philanthropy” seem to have an insatiable demand for punishment. In this “post-truth era”, the Marquis de Sade sets the standard for discussion of media ethics: “Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.” That parallel certainly applies to the “vibrating wand that drive the boys crazy,” as put by Snopes’ chief fact-checker and content manager Kim LaCapra, also known as the domme ViceVixen.
For this study of the backside of mainstream media, we travel to Mistress Kimberley’s wacky world at the Amityville house of horrors for whores, and along the way shall meet colorful characters, including a takeover artist known as Fast Eddy, an Indian guru from the Cialis cult, the false flagger of the Boston Marathon, the Craiglist Ripper and, of course, Monsieur J’aime les Enfantes. So boys and girls, roll up for the mystery tour that’s coming to take you away. - See more at: http://www.rense.com/general96/strangedayspizza.htm#sthash.l4HojwjP.dpuf
Laskar ago
Great comment. Yoshi Shimatsu has done great work. Example: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1767291
Although this article dates from 2012, but Shimatsu makes a strong case based on the activities of MIT's Media Lab, which is an offshoot of DARPA and MKUltra, regarding CP (and child exploitation in Cambodia).
I, for one never believed Schwartz was murdered because MIT does not have any proprietary right to JSTOR. The whole thing always seemed weird, and a smokescreen for the real reason he was killed, never mind the ridiculous story that he could hang himself with a 30" belt.
http://rense.com/general95/swartz.html
Although the article is interesting in itself, can we look further into MIT? Is the murder of that security guard in 2013 related to this?