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Snopes.com in ugly legal battle over control of the company
- covercash 9y agoPrevious discussion from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839972
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoWorth noting this seems more detailed than the previous stories. $100k per month to run Snopes, my goodness - they're not going to run for long on handouts.
- danso 9y agoRelated update: Snopes met its $500K goal in one day: http://www.poynter.org/2017/snopes-met-its-500k-fundraising-goal-now-what/468113/ http://www.poynter.org/2017/snopes-met-its-500k-fundraising-... Best of luck to them but the way they worded their fund-raising appeal without being up front about their legal challenges really rubbed me the wrong way, in terms of whether the donated money will be well-managed or even have any effect to the site's survival given its legal predicament. Didn't help that, as someone pointed out, Snopes for some reason has blocked their site from being scraped by the Internet Archive: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/889559326565646336 https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/889559326565646336