One of the websites Facebook is to use to arbitrate on "fake news" is involved in a bitter legal dispute between its co-founders, with its CEO accused of using company money for prostitutes.
Snopes.com will be part of a panel used by Facebook to decide whether stories which users complain about as potentially "fake" should be considered "disputed".
But the website"s own troubles and the intriguing choice of who carries out its "fact checks" are revealed by DailyMail.com, as one of its main contributors is disclosed to be a former sex-blogger who called herself "Vice Vixen".
Snopes.com will benefit from Facebook"s decision to allow users to report items in their newsfeed which they believe to be "fake".
It is asking a number of organizations to arbitrate on items which are reported or which Facebook staff think may not be genuine, and decide whether they should be marked as "disputed".
Husband and wife: David Mikkelson is now married to Snopes.com staff member Elyssa Young - but also engaged in a bitter legal battle with his former wife Barbara with whom he set up the site
Wedding: Elyssa Young - who maintains a website offering her services as an escort - and Davik Mikkelson married in November. The wedding party included two other Snopes.com workers
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