{"id":15154,"date":"2024-02-05T22:47:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=15154"},"modified":"2024-02-06T03:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T03:38:49","slug":"fact-check-snopes-says-covid-lab-origin-is-a-conspiracy-theory-and-claims-they-never-said-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/02\/05\/fact-check-snopes-says-covid-lab-origin-is-a-conspiracy-theory-and-claims-they-never-said-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Snopes says Covid lab origin is a conspiracy theory, and claims they never said that"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So says this analysis: <a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationchronicle.substack.com\/cp\/141392976\">The Dumbest Snopes &#8220;Fact-Check&#8221; Of All Time? (substack.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snopes repeatedly said Covid lab-leak suggestions were untrue, conspiracy theories, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one of their fact checkers now insists Snopes never said this, even though they did, repeatedly. Wild stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stopped relying on Snopes in 2021 when it became public that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davidpmikkelson\/\"> their founder<\/a> was a serial plagiarizer and had created many fake stories for the site, including using a pseudonym to make it look like they had more staff than they did: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?s=snopes\">Search Results for \u201csnopes\u201d \u2013 Social Panic (coldstreams.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/2021\/08\/13\/apology-from-senior-management\/\">Apology from Members of Snopes Senior Management | Snopes.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/13\/business\/media\/snopes-plagiarism-David-Mikkelson.html\">At least 60 articles were retracted by Snopes<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The background seems unsavory too: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2017\/jul\/28\/ticker-fact-checking-website-snopescom-considers\/\">Owner of fact-checking website, Snopes.com, considers lawsuit allegations to be fake news | San Diego Reader<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>David Mikkelson is now self-employed, says his LinkedIn page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny &#8211; fact checker Snopes said in the past that a Covid lab origin was a conspiracy theory, then one of their fact checkers denies they ever said that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-media","category-media-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}