The co-founder and CEO of Snopes, David Mikkelson’s wife Elyssa Young is a former escort and adult film actress.
David Mikkelson is an American entrepreneur and author. He is best recognized as the CEO and co-founder of Snopes.com, the first online fact-checking website.
He owns 50 percent of Snopes Media Group. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for numismatics in 2006. He was also one of the four finalists for the prize in 2008.
In 2005, Mr. Mikkelson won the Distinguished COnflagration Award of the American Society of Muleskinners.
He is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio and has a degree in Computer Science.
David Mikkelson, co-founder of the fact-checking site Snopes, has been suspended by his own company after admitting to plagiarizing material on the site for years. | by @isaac_schorr https://t.co/owaw8TnUfT
— National Review (@NRO) August 14, 2021
Meet Snopes CEO David Mikkelson Wife Elyssa And Ex-Wife Barbara
David Mikkelson married his current wife, Elyssa Young, in late 2016.
Elyssa was a popular adult-film actress in the 90s. She was an active escort until 2015.
Mikkelson was married to Barbara Mikkelson. It’s unsure when they married but the couple divorced in 2015. She was also a writer in David’s company.
She started writing as a hobby but it became a real moneymaker afterward. However, she stopped writing for the website in 2014.
After the divorce, Barbara sold her shares in the company in 2016 to a company called Proper Media. She claimed that David spent company money to go on trips with his then-girlfriend Elyssa.
There is smoke surrounding Snopes and its current owner David Mikkelson. As you will read, the smoke involves Mikkelson’s ex-wife, embezzlement, sketchy company practices, new wife porn star/Las Vegas escort (Elyssa Young aka Erin O’Bryn) and more: https://t.co/waDKnlzroY pic.twitter.com/8Hk0pNy6IM
— SlantRight2 (@SlantRight2) August 3, 2018
What Is David Mikkelson Net Worth?
David Mikkelson’s net worth is estimated in millions.
He is a co-founder of Snopes.com. It was an earl online encyclopedia that focused on urban legends. The sites attracted around seven to eight million visitors every month by 2020.
In 2016, the James Randi Educational Foundation gave an award of $75,000 to Snopes.com. The site raised $700,000 from GoFundMe a year later.
It also received around $100k from its partner Facebook, according to Snopes.com Wikipedia.
Wiki: David Mikkelson Wrote Dozens Of Plagiarised Articles
David Mikkelson has published hundreds of articles on his fact-checking website, Snopes.com.
However, Buzzfeed’s investigation found the CEO published dozens of articles plagiarized from other news outlets between 2015 and 2019.
“After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material.”https://t.co/APbb62AgSt
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) August 13, 2021
He wrote and published articles from sites like The New York Times, BBC, CNN, the LA Times, the Guardian, and more.
Mikkelson admitted he copied articles and committed copyright violations, according to The New York Times. He apologized to those outlets whose copyright he violated. He also extended his apologies to his staff and readers for his behavior.
The editorial team of Snopes found at least 60 plagiarized articles and removed it from the site. Ads were removed from these articles.
Mikkelson will continue to be the CEO of Snopes Media Group but he is no longer allowed to publish articles on the site.
David Mikkelson Age- How Old Is He?
David Mikkelson’s age is 60-65 years old currently.
However, his real age is not yet available on the internet.
Details On David Mikkelson Family
Aside from his wife Elyssa Young, there are no details of David Mikkelson’s other family members.
David’s parents’ name is anonymous as of now. Also, it’s uncertain if he has any siblings.