Editing Snopes (section)

=== 2010s ===
By 2010, the site was attracting seven million to eight million unique visitors in an average month.<ref name="ZYklr" /><ref name="RXQhb" />
By mid-2014, Barbara had not written for ''Snopes'' "in several years"<ref name="webby" /> and David hired users from ''Snopes.com''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s message board to assist him in running the site. The Mikkelsons divorced around that time.<ref name="webby" /><ref name="so2d3" /> [[Chris Richmond (entrepreneur)|Christopher Richmond]] and [[Drew Schoentrup]] became part owners in July 2016 with the purchase of Barbara Mikkelson's share by the internet media management company [[Proper Media]].<ref name="CNS_Bruno" />

On March 9, 2017, David Mikkelson terminated the brokering agreement with Proper Media, which was also the company that provided ''Snopes'' with [[web development]], [[Web hosting service|hosting]], and [[Web advertising|advertising]] support.<ref name="8XEZo" /> The move prompted Proper Media to stop remitting advertising revenue and to file a lawsuit in May. In late June, Bardav—the company founded by David and Barbara Mikkelson in 2003 to own and operate ''snopes.com''—started a [[GoFundMe]] campaign to raise money to continue operations.<ref name="fcs4Q" /> They raised $500,000 in 24 hours.<ref name="Hw4f0" /> Later, in August, a judge ordered Proper Media to disburse advertising revenues to Bardav while the case was pending.<ref name="4EDNC" />

In July 2018, ''Snopes'' abruptly terminated its contract with Managing Editor Brooke Binkowski, with no explanation.{{huh?|date=July 2024}} By the time ''Snopes'' co-founder and CEO David Mikkelson confirmed the termination to her, the situation was still not clear.<ref name="jgajb" />

In early 2019, ''Snopes'' announced that it had acquired the website ''[[On the Issues|OnTheIssues.org]]'', and is "hard at work modernizing its extensive archives".<ref name="xpUaQ" /> ''OnTheIssues'' is a website that seeks to "present all the relevant evidence, assess how strongly each piece supports or opposes a position, and summarize it with an average" in order to "provide voters with reliable information on candidates' policy positions".<ref name="TCJes" />

In 2018 and 2019, ''Snopes'' fact-checked several articles from ''[[The Babylon Bee]]'', a satirical website, rating them "False". The decision resulted in Facebook adding warnings to links to those articles shared on its site.<ref name="FgmcC" /><ref name="nyt2019aug2" /><ref name="buzzfeed" /> ''Snopes'' added a new rating called "Labeled Satire" to identify satirical stories.<ref name="gsgc0" />

In 2019, ''Snopes'' was embroiled in legal disputes with Proper Media, with a [[Legal case|court case]] scheduled for spring 2020. By then Proper Media had become a co-owner of Bardav through acquiring Barbara Mikkelson's half-interest share, intending to take overall ownership of ''Snopes'' for its own "portfolio of media sites". The move failed as David Mikkelson had no intention to sell his share.<ref name="LBCSi" />