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.
As newsrooms contract, fact-checking operations are expanding. Some fact-checking organizations, like PolitiFact, partner with local newspapers such as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to bring fact-checking to local media markets.
Typically, researchers study political knowledge by assessing whether people know something or not. However, scholars have highlighted the importance of distinguishing between people who are certain about a misperception they hold as compared to those who are uninformed, but unsure, about their belief.
In one study surveying about Americans, we decided to distinguish between different kinds of political informedness. Some people know a fact and are confident that they know it.
But Biden was still hyperbolic here in giving sole credit to his own purchases. Let's now turn to Biden's claim that "only 2 million people" had Covid shots when he was first elected. Obviously, only the tiny number of Americans who participated in clinical trials had received Covid shots when Biden was elected in November, since public vaccinations began in December.
But even if we look at the situation when Biden first took office on January 20, his claim that "there were only 2 million people who had Covid shots" is at least a bit incorrect.
According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , more than 18 million people in the US had received at least one shot at the time. But Biden did say "shots," plural, and he was comparing this figure to the million current figure for fully vaccinated Americans, so he was likely referring, imprecisely, to the number of people who were fully vaccinated early in his presidency.
Even then, though, current CDC data says 3. Biden might have been thinking of news reports from January 20, based on CDC data available at the time, that put the number at around 2 million, but the CDC numbers get updated over time as more information comes in and vaccinations are assigned to the date they actually occurred instead of the date they were reported. Vaccination sites. Biden said that "there are over , sites right now that exist in America where you can go get a vaccine.
Facts First: This is false; Biden added an extra zero. The White House official said Biden meant 80, vaccination sites, the number he has used on multiple previous occasions.
Fox and vaccinations. Talking about right-wing television station Fox News, Biden asked, "Do you realize they mandate vaccinations? Facts First: This needs context. Fox Corp. Rather, in a September memo , Fox Corp. The authenticated information can serve as a resource to journalists seeking out accurate information.
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