Snopes is the first place a lot
of people go when they're not quite sure about what they've seen
online. But Mikkelson and others who run the site have aspirations to be
more than just a debunker of fake news
They want it to be a place where people come for real news, too. [...]
Mikkelson started Snopes --
named after a family of characters in William Faulkner novels -- more
than 20 years ago with his now ex-wife. Back then, in 1994, he wasn't
trying to launch a debunker of myths. He was just playing around with
this shiny new thing called the Internet.
"I
worked for a large computer company, so I was on the Internet before
most people knew there was an Internet," Mikkelson told CNN from his
home office in Calabasas. [...]
Today, Snopes has grown from essentially a one-man band to a team of 12
editorial employees (including four staff writers and two contract
writers) and a handful of operations staff to handle the technical and
business side of things.
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