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
Aug. 5, 2014
Online reports held that a school of killer whales attacked and ate 16 crew members of a Japanes ...
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Aug. 4, 2014
A restaurant server declined to wait on customers who made derogatory comments about a child wit ...
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Aug. 3, 2014 (Updated: May 20, 2021)
Unsurprisingly, the voting site does not appear to be affiliated with Google.
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Aug. 2, 2014
Is Coca-Cola recalling millions of bottles of Coke with the name Michael on the label?
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Aug. 1, 2014
Photograph shows a white supremacist activist surrounded by smiling Black people.
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July 31, 2014
Does Edible Arrangements fund the terrorist organization Hamas?
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July 29, 2014
A statement reproducing Hillary Clinton's response when asked to identify her major accomplishme ...
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July 29, 2014
Police in New Jersey found a body that had lain undisturbed for five years under a motel bed.
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July 29, 2014
Reports that the former president was arrested in Dallas for cocaine possession are fake news.
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July 29, 2014
Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter has canceled his retirement plans to sign with the Boston Red Sox.
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July 29, 2014
Is it true that actor Russell Johnson of "Gilligan's Island" fame was identified as the Zodiac K ...
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July 28, 2014
A Perseids meteor "outburst" will be visible in August 2016.
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July 27, 2014
How actor James Garner detected the presence of an enemy patrol during the Korean War through th ...
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July 26, 2014
Don't follow links posted on Facebook that supposedly point to a leaked video of a Malaysian Air ...
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July 23, 2014
Has former President George H.W. Bush died of food poisoning?
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July 23, 2014
Has President Obama required that ammunition cartridges use primer that expires after one year?
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July 22, 2014
Did actor Paul Newman author an essay on the art of marriage for his wedding to Joanne Woodward?
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July 20, 2014
Photograph shows debris scene of shot-down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Real or fake?
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July 20, 2014
Tragedies are bad enough without misrepresenting them via repurposed videos.
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July 19, 2014
The first lady spoke on the subject of immigration reform at a swearing-in ceremony for new U.S. ...
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