NEW YORK: The co-founder and CEO of the fact-checking site Snopes.com has acknowledged plagiarising from dozens of articles done by mainstream news outlets over several years, calling the appropriations “serious lapses in judgment”.
From 2015 to 2019 – and possibly even earlier – David Mikkelson included material lifted from the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and others to scoop up web traffic, according to BuzzFeed News, which broke the story Friday.
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