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The founder of mythbusting website Snopes, which was recently tapped by Facebook as one of four “fact-check†organizations patrolling the site for “fake news,†embezzled $98,000 in company funds before spending it on “himself and the prostitutes he hired,†according to legal documents filed by his ex-wife reviewed by the Daily Mail.
After divorcing from his first wife, Barbara Mikkelson, David Mikkelson married Elyssa Young, a former porn star and current escort who now works for Snopes as an administrator, according to the Daily Mail.
The Daily Mail also revealed that top Snopes “fact-checker†Kim LaCapria claimed on her personal blog that she has “posted to Snopes†after smoking marijuana. As TheDC previously revealed, LaCapria describes herself as “openly left-leaning†and once claimed that Republicans fear “female agency.â€