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After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material.
The articles include such topics as same-sex marriage licenses and the death of musician David Bowie. Snopes told BuzzFeed News it plans to retract all of the offending stories and disable advertising on them. It will also append an editor's note of explanation to each.
Or was the mother of extremely advanced age? Meet Jeff Zarronandia. Plus it made it appear he had more staff than he had. Between and , Mikkelson regularly plagiarized reporting from other news outlets in an effort, he said, to scoop up traffic.
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Mikkelson attributed this behavior to his lack of formal journalism experience. A number of times I crossed the line to where it was copyright infringement. I own that. Founded in by Mikkelson and his then-wife, Barbara Hamel, Snopes bills itself as "the internet's definitive fact-checking site," and is a two-time Webby Award winner cited by the likes of the New York Times and the Washington Post.
But in recent years, the site has been troubled by a bitter ownership dispute. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Mikkelson said that he created the Zarronandia pseudonym as a joke intended to mislead the trolls and conspiracy theorists who frequently targeted the site and its writers in the run-up to the US presidential election. Knowingly misleading readers by using a fake name is considered unethical for many news outlets — especially one that markets itself as a bulwark of truth and transparency.
Far worse is plagiarism. I hated it and wouldn't tell any of the staff to do it, but he did it all the time. One, who asked to remain anonymous, told BuzzFeed News that "taking credit for other people's work" was "part of his model.
The Zarronandia byline first appeared on the site in on an article that seems to have been plagiarized in its entirety, except for a few minor word changes, from a Reuters bulletin about Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Reuters confirmed it does not currently have any licensing agreement with Snopes, but declined to answer questions about any past agreements. Another Zarronandia article , an obituary of David Bowie, pieces together paragraphs from E!
Online and the LA Times , using near-identical phrasing and sequencing. Emails and Slack messages seen by BuzzFeed News suggest that, over the course of at least two years starting September , plagiarism may have been routine practice for Mikkelson. In one Slack message from January , Mikkelson detailed his strategy for copying and then quickly rewriting articles after publishing. Mikkelson did not dispute the authenticity of any of these exchanges and attributed them to his poor understanding of how news gathering works.
But it wasn't until Zarronandia began covering the US presidential election that the eccentric persona seemed to develop a life of his own. A news conference held by doctors in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, to urge the public to get vaccinated amid a statewide surge of COVID was undermined online as false reports claimed the physicians had walked off the job. As Australian health officials encourage eligible high school students to get vaccinated for COVID before upcoming in-person exams, social media users are spreading false claims that their efforts involve forcibly injecting children.
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