https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes#Change_of_ownership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Richmond_(entrepreneur)#Snopes.com_lawsuit
https://www.wired.com/story/snopes-and-the-search-for-facts-in-a-post-fact-world/
https://www.courthousenews.com/fact-checker-snopes-owners-accused-corporate-subterfuge/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220923232402/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/snopes-co-owners-acquire-remaining-140000348.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovrn_Holdings
Snopes.com has been thought of as a reputable and trusted site for fact-checking.
From 2016 to 2022, the original mom-and-pop owners were sued out of their company in what was described as a “hostile takeover”.
Snopes is now owned as a for-profit “programmatic advertising business”.
Nothing that op wrote says what you’re saying. He put a link to sovrn because these two had an ad company that they sold to sovrn. Nothing in the articles he linked says sovrn is running snopes nor did OP imply that.
Their response to me would disagree, or they would have commented as much on my statement regarding Sovrn.
I’d also be real hard pressed to call them “investors”. At that point anyone who has ever operated any business, has a 401k, has bought stocks, etc, is an “investor”.
What’s implied here is clearly the vulture capitalist firms. Best case scenario, they used bad wording.
But the complete lack of response to anything regarding the statements about Sovrn, and instead posting unrelated and irrelevant information about Snopes disclosure page updates kind of points to that not being the case.
This post is misinformation.
Edit: I’d also recommend reading their reply to me.
Its basically “well why wouldn’t they do this thing I’m claiming but have no proof of?”
Thats not a “you should know”, thats a “Ive got a conspiracy theory”.
I’d also note that yes, someone who ran an ad company will absolutely be the right person to run something freely accessible to the public and supported by ads.
Its the internet. Most free websites are supported by ads.
Please feel free to point me to any verifiable source that supports any of the claims made in the post or single subsequent reply.