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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May 25, 2014 (Updated: Aug. 26, 2022)
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May 25, 2014
Has a franchise owner been granted permission to open a whites-only Arby's restaurant in Florida?
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May 22, 2014
Our readers report their experiences with service level employees unfamiliar with currency.
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May 21, 2014
Photographs purportedly documenting a new species of 'giant sea spider' recently discovered in t ...
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May 21, 2014
Sarah Palin supposedly speculated that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have disappeared 'becaus ...
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May 19, 2014
Fake news reports that Barack Obama has announced he is running for yet another term as presiden ...
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May 19, 2014
Was NFL quarterback Peyton Manning arrested on drug charges?
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May 18, 2014
The real question should be: Are soft drinks being used effectively as pesticides?
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May 16, 2014
Photographs do not show thousands and thousands of unsold new cars deteriorating in storage lots.
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May 14, 2014
President Eisenhower's warning about "a few Texas oil millionaires" became a popular retort duri ...
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May 12, 2014
A Chinese coal miner was reportedly discovered alive in an abandoned mine 17 years after he had ...
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May 6, 2014
Does a photograph show a distraught child in the process of being tattooed by his father?
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May 2, 2014
Halal stores are clearly identified by signs throughout, including on the menu panels and in the ...
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April 25, 2014
Was medical waste that included human tissue shipped from British Columbia to be incinerated at ...
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April 20, 2014
Have Japanese scientists successfully cloned a saber-tooth tiger?
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April 17, 2014
Have Jews in eastern Ukraine been ordered to register with the government?
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April 17, 2014
Has congress introduced a bill requiring military veterans to inform their neighbors about their ...
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April 17, 2014
Rumor: The American Psychiatric Association has classified the taking of 'selfies' as a mental d ...
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April 16, 2014
Rumor: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will be portraying Martin Luther King in an upcoming film.
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April 16, 2014
The times, they are a-changin'.
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