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
Jan. 2, 2014
Did dozens of people die of marijuana overdoses on the first day of legalized use in Colorado or ...
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Jan. 2, 2014
Did President Obama issue an executive order to replace the U.S. flag with one of a more 'progre ...
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Jan. 2, 2014
Alabama mom's Obamacare horror story gives America a glimpse of government run healthcare.
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Jan. 1, 2014
Did investigators discover the corpse of Michael Jackson buried at his Neverland Ranch in March ...
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Dec. 31, 2013
Is the Red Lobster chain about to close its doors and go out of business for good?
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Dec. 30, 2013
Does a photograph show a pair of unwitting 12-year-old surfers in the direct path of a shark?
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Dec. 23, 2013
Was Michael Jordan robbed of his shoes at gunpoint during an in-store sneaker signing appearance?
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Dec. 21, 2013
Will an unusual planetary alignment on 4 January 2015 make people on Earth weigh less?
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Dec. 20, 2013 (Updated: Oct. 9, 2020)
John Tyler might not be remembered much at all today were it not for a shocking twist of fate.
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Dec. 19, 2013
A false rumor about the American rapper and songwriter tricked Facebook users into enabling a ro ...
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Dec. 19, 2013
Is SpongeBob SquarePants being canceled at the end of January 2014?
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Dec. 18, 2013
Egypt occasionally experiences a rare snowfall, but viral photographs purporting to show monumen ...
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Dec. 18, 2013
Photographs show Dobri Dobrev, a 98-year-old man in Sofia who collects money for the restoration ...
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Dec. 17, 2013
Was a fourth-grade student suspended for saying 'Merry Christmas' to his teacher?
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Dec. 16, 2013
Rumors have been shared for years about purportedly found remnants of wood, metals, and animals ...
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Dec. 16, 2013
Was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer created to bring comfort to a girl whose mother was dying of ...
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Dec. 16, 2013
Has Pennsylvania passed a law banning New Jersey drivers from their highways?
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Dec. 10, 2013
Image shows Salvation Army bell ringers posing with a sign reading 'Gays Not Allowed'?
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Dec. 10, 2013
Rumor: Rapper Kanye West proclaimed: 'I am the next Nelson Mandela.'
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Dec. 6, 2013
A 5-year-old girl named Nijaey Hilton is missing from her New York home?
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