Snopes co-founder revealed as serial plagiarist, planned to fill site with "traffic-generating junk"

A Buzzfeed investigation concludes that David Mikkelson, co-founder of the fact-checking site Snopes, published plagiarized articles under a pseudonym name there for at least four years. The articles were news items, not the debunkings: content hastily-generated to goose traffic that contained "entire paragraphs copied without attribution" from other news sources. — Read the rest