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).
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Aug. 12, 2014
Lauren Bacall has died, son Robert Bogart confirmed.
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Aug. 12, 2014
Mexican pop star Thalia posted 'proof' of a rib removal surgery to both Twitter and Instagram
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Aug. 12, 2014
The Marin County Sheriff's Office has released an initial cause of death for actor and comedian ...
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Aug. 12, 2014
Rumor: The federal Food Stamp program (SNAP) will be discontinued in March 2015.
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Aug. 12, 2014
Have ISIS militants been beheading children in Iraq and Syria?
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Aug. 11, 2014
Is the federal government preventing Volkswagen's XL1 model car from being sold in the U.S. beca ...
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Aug. 11, 2014
News stories that weren't what they first appeared to be.
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Aug. 11, 2014
Customer buys up all the apple pies at a Burger King to thwart a misbehaving child.
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Aug. 11, 2014
NASCAR champion Tony Stewart hit and killed a fellow driver after an accident on the race track.
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Aug. 11, 2014
Is a 24-year-old Texas man named Aaron Wade Sisco missing?
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Aug. 8, 2014
A viral picture appeared to show a cute coincidence with 'Share a Coke' campaign bottles.
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Aug. 8, 2014
Recycled fake news reports that a police officer killed a mother following a dispute about breas ...
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Aug. 8, 2014
Do women in Germany face the loss of unemployment benefits if they decline to accept work in bro ...
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Aug. 8, 2014
Photograph shows a honeymooner taking an underwater selfie moments before he was killed by a shark.
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Aug. 7, 2014
Is Apple co-founder Steve Jobs alive and in hiding in Rio de Janeiro?
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Aug. 7, 2014
She tells police her name is Julia Bay Wadsworth, but who is the unidentified woman in custody i ...
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Aug. 7, 2014
Did former New York Mets outfielder Kevin Mitchell cut the head off his girlfriend's cat with a ...
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Aug. 6, 2014
Photographs purportedly illustrate a trip to San Francisco in 1940 as described in a letter by H ...
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Aug. 6, 2014
Photographs show a dead mermaid found in Bulgaria's Vladaya River.
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Aug. 5, 2014
The Facebook Messenger app does require multiple permissions and terms be accepted, but so do ma ...
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