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. 10, 2020
The president attempted to circumvent Congress in August 2020 to provide coronavirus relief in t ...
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Aug. 10, 2020
Information about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, published in two CNN articles, ...
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Aug. 9, 2020
"The giant woman fell asleep waiting for her beloved to return from battle, unaware that he had ...
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Aug. 6, 2020
"Stop getting your news from memes and calling it research!"
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Aug. 3, 2020
Do not attribute to the divine that which can be explained by condiments.
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Aug. 1, 2020
A spoof omnibus conspiracy theory linked a company developing a potential COVID-19 vaccine to se ...
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July 28, 2020
The actor is one of several celebrities who have become the target of bizarre conspiracy theorie ...
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July 28, 2020
Several news outlets in the U.S. and Mexico reported that the viral video captured Hurricane Han ...
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July 27, 2020
The BLM movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the a ...
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July 25, 2020
Numerous U.S. residents have reported receiving seeds in the mail from China that they did not o ...
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July 23, 2020
This is a type of bizarre viral claim that pains us to even have to address.
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July 23, 2020
Many Twitter users claimed in July 2020 that they were locked out of their accounts after postin ...
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July 22, 2020
The rumors and conspiracy theories flowed in after Maxwell's arrest in 2020.
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July 22, 2020
"Somehow it never occurred to me that this concept — a guy pissing on another guy — was not goin ...
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July 21, 2020
Questions and speculation may always surround the assassination of Dr. King, but this is not a c ...
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July 20, 2020
President Trump ranted about low-flow showers and dishwashers at a campaign rally-like event whi ...
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July 20, 2020
The Province of New Brunswick declared a state of emergency and issued a mandatory order in resp ...
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July 18, 2020
Confederate flags, monuments and military base names have become a national flashpoint since the ...
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July 17, 2020
Nearly everyone likes cash, except perhaps in times of a pandemic.
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July 17, 2020
A vague resemblance between two women does not support the salacious implications of this meme.
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