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
April 16, 2014
Has the Miami-Dade County Elections Department implemented a policy to close the bathrooms at al ...
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April 16, 2014
Was New York Jets quarterback Michael Vick attacked by a stray pitbull?
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April 14, 2014
Obamacare does not require that patients 76 and older must be admitted to the hospital by their ...
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April 14, 2014
Was singer Patti Labelle arrested after attacking Aretha Franklin at an Atlanta concert?
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April 14, 2014
Rumor: The U.S. dollar will officially collapse after 1 July 2014 due to the implementation of H ...
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April 14, 2014
Are Senator Harry Reid and a Chinese company building a solar plant behind a standoff between fe ...
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April 14, 2014
Is the federal government preventing Volkswagen's XL1 model car from being sold in the U.S. beca ...
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April 12, 2014
Did the Hobby Lobby chain fire an employee for divorcing her husband without company approval?
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April 10, 2014
Are Kansas legislators considering a bill that would force the Fox science show 'COSMOS' off the ...
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April 9, 2014
Rumor: Schoolkids are smoking and injecting crushed bedbugs to get high from a hallucinogenic su ...
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April 9, 2014
Is the NCAA investigating the use of 'skill enhancing drugs' by the 2014 champion UConn Huskies ...
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April 8, 2014
The discovery of a major bug known as 'Heartbleed' has prompted web sites to encourage users to ...
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April 7, 2014 (Updated: Nov. 13, 2019)
Reports of the death of actor Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson are not real nor new.
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April 7, 2014
Consumer concerns about Crest 3D White brands of toothpaste embedding plastic balls in users' gu ...
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April 6, 2014
Reports that Zimmerman had painted and sold a portrait of Trayvon Martin were fake news.
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April 4, 2014
The seven dumbest, widely-circulated fake photographs of President Obama.
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April 4, 2014
A passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 hid his cell phone in his rectum and used it to post ...
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April 3, 2014
A supposed speech by Russian president Vladimir Putin demanding that Muslim immigrants speak Rus ...
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April 2, 2014
Photograph shows a newly-discovered snake species known as the Texas Bonnet Rattlesnake.
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