What Is going on between Snopes and their vendor?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It’s kind of sad to realize a fun hobby has come to this.

I vaguely recall Snopes posts on Usenet. There was a similar guy called the Fake Detective. He exposed faked celebrity photos.

Both moved their work from Usenet to web sites. I doubt either guy expected a major source of income. They just wanted to cover the operating costs.

The original Fake Detective retired several years ago. I don’t know if he’s still associated with the archived web site.

Snopes apparently sold his soul to a pit of vipers. I can only speculate the web site got too big for him & his wife to manage.

Imdb was The Cardiff Internet Movie Database. Started and run by volunteers. Now it’s a shill for Amazon.

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Remember all the fan sites on Geocities?

Fans passionate about a show or celebrity built shrines to celebrate them.

All gone.

The Corporate World runs the Net now.

I hope David Mikkelson gets back control of his web site. It would be great to see one major web site not controlled by corporations.

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Ars technica writeup (my head hurts)

Brian

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Interesting.

Also I had always imagined Mr. Mikkelson with a long graying beard like an Old Believer.
However I think it is time to distinguish Imitation News, such as deliberate false sites purvey for click-bait ( like saying a litter of rabbits were born to a woman * , or Walmart is giving away free goods on a certain day ) and Fake News which is political, used to discredit whatever one party is saying.

  • As in the Mary Toft’s case.