What Happened to Snopes?

This seems bizarre to me. Snopes is reported to have been hijacked.

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Originally Posted by savesnopes.com We had previously contracted with an outside vendor to provide certain services for Snopes.com. That contractual relationship ended earlier this year, but the vendor will not acknowledge the change in contractual status and continues to essentially hold the Snopes.com web site hostage. Although we maintain editorial control (for now), the vendor will not relinquish the site’s hosting to our control, so we cannot modify the site, develop it, or — most crucially — place advertising on it. The vendor continues to insert their own ads and has been withholding the advertising revenue from us.

I wouldn't have thought that something like this would be so hard to resolve.

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