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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April 1, 2014
Report that actor Norman Reedus has been fired from 'The Walking Dead'' is an old April Fool's joke.
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April 1, 2014
Former Navy SEAL Chris Heben was shot following a parking lot altercation and drove himself to t ...
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April 1, 2014
Does a photograph show First Lady Michelle Obama waving Communist flags in China?
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March 31, 2014
Some motel chains have implemented policies under which they decline to provide rooms to persons ...
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March 31, 2014
Will a 'Full Pink Moon' be visible on 15 April 2014?
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March 31, 2014
U.S. troops stationed in Muslim countries are not being ordered to fast and submit to Sharia law ...
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March 30, 2014
Rumor: Scientists at a British or Korean university have successfully cloned a dinosaur from pre ...
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March 26, 2014
Scam: Phony IRS telephone demands that overdue taxes be settled via prepaid debit card or wire t ...
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March 26, 2014
Fake news reports that NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon announced that he is in a relationship with a ...
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March 25, 2014
Did the slang phrase for kicking a habit all at once originate with a literal reference to a plu ...
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March 24, 2014
Razor blades were discovered glued to playground equipment in a public park.
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March 24, 2014
Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 captured by the U.S. Navy?
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March 21, 2014
Did notorious homophobe and Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps confess on his deathbed ...
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March 18, 2014
Reports that Google Earth images helped locate a castaway are fake news.
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March 16, 2014
Has Wayne Knight from 'Seinfeld' been killed in a car crash?
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March 15, 2014
Scam: Boxer Floyd Mayweather is giving away $2.6 million to one lucky fan on Facebook.
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March 14, 2014
E-mail phishing scam poses as notifications from NICE about blood test results.
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March 14, 2014
Massachusetts offers a 'Silent 911 Call' procedure for those who cannot speak openly to emergenc ...
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March 14, 2014
Red Bull and other brands of energy drinks employ various stimulating ingredients, but none of t ...
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March 13, 2014
Don't follow links posted on Facebook that supposedly point to a video of the missing Malaysia A ...
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