David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 18, 2014
Claims that the National Football League pays no taxes on billions of dollars in profits because ...
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Sept. 18, 2014
An image supposedly shows HIV-positive former NBA star Magic Johnson donating blood for leukemia ...
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Sept. 18, 2014
Is Netflix discontinuing its services and declaring bankruptcy due to rampant piracy?
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Sept. 18, 2014
“We play with shorter basketball hoops and he was dunking all over us. The smack talk got out of ...
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Sept. 17, 2014 (Updated: Dec. 14, 2022)
Rumor: Sean Combs (Puff Daddy) was arrested for the murder of Tupac Shakur.
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Sept. 17, 2014
Rumor: Muslim men living in Michigan can receive welfare assistance for up to four wives.
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Sept. 17, 2014
Has Colorado become the first state to legalize recreational use of crystal meth?
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Sept. 17, 2014
Is Michelle Obama divorcing Barack over his golfing habit?
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Sept. 16, 2014
CRI's Sean Malone urgently requests prayers for the children of Queragosh after systematic behea ...
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Sept. 16, 2014
Man posts a selfie picture taken with his girlfriend's stolen corpse.
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Sept. 16, 2014
Has the brother of a top ISIS leader repented and converted to Christianity?
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Sept. 16, 2014
Rumor: Prisoners swapped in exchange for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl now top 'ISIS leaders.'
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Sept. 16, 2014
Image shows a 1980s advertisement offering a free U2 album with every cassette player purchase.
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Sept. 16, 2014
Has the federal government banned public school students from bringing sack lunches to school?
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Sept. 15, 2014
Does a public high school in Hilliard, Ohio, host a Muslim prayer room?
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Sept. 15, 2014
Are child predators using Facebook to source victims by adding unsuspecting parents as friends?
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Sept. 15, 2014
Urban Outfitters offered an item appearing to be bloodstained Kent State sweatshirt for sale.
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Sept. 15, 2014
Did Kanye West refuse to continue a concert because a fan in a wheelchair refused to 'stand up'?
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Sept. 15, 2014
Rumor claims a mother-daughter lesbian couple named Vertasha and Mary seek acceptance of their t ...
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Sept. 14, 2014
Photographs purportedly show giant mutant spiders produced by government DNA experiments in Miss ...
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