Snopes Retracts Dozens of Articles After Review Finds Co-founder Plagiarized

David Mikkelson, often writing under a pseudonym, copied and pasted entire paragraphs from news websites

In this photo Illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Berlin on June 22, 2016. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images

Snopes, a fact-checking website, has retracted at least 54 articles after finding that its co-founder and CEO had repeatedly plagiarized content from other websites.

David Mikkelson, co-founder of Snopes, has been suspended as the website completes an internal review of the issue.