Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson has been accused of publishing plagiarized articles under a false name.
The notorious fact-checking website holds itself out as an arbiter of truth in an age of “fake news.”
The fact-checking site has banned David Mikkelson, who owns half the company, from writing articles after a BuzzFeed News investigation prompted an internal review.
David Mikkelson, a computer science graduate, co-founded Snopes in 1994 with his then-wife. On Friday he admitted plagiarizing dozens of stories, to the dismay of staff.
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