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
July 15, 2020
In political punditry, why go with a straightforward explanation when a nonsensical one will do?
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July 15, 2020
Mary Trump said her book "is the story of the most visible and powerful family in the world, and ...
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July 14, 2020
A fabricated image shared in social media posts was created to look like an ad campaign supporte ...
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July 14, 2020
A photograph of Joe Biden kissing his granddaughter on the lips during an Iowa rally drew critic ...
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July 13, 2020
How to appropriately protect and preserve cultural property is an old conundrum.
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July 8, 2020
The U.S. president's daughter drew harsh criticism in India after tweeting support for an impove ...
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July 8, 2020
President Donald Trump has called the U.S. territory “one of the most corrupt places on Earth.”
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July 8, 2020
At some universities, international students account for a third of the undergraduate student bo ...
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July 7, 2020
It's difficult to make a nonexistent vaccine mandatory.
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July 7, 2020
If it were banned, you wouldn't be seeing this message ...
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July 7, 2020
The crime was horrific, but it was not an example of racial violence some reports made it out to be.
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July 6, 2020
Numerous celebrities reminded their followers to mask up amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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July 5, 2020
The president's 2020 Independence Day address wasn't the smoothest of speeches, but neither was ...
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June 27, 2020
Sometimes possibilities are ruled out through simple chronology.
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June 26, 2020
Appearances can be deceiving, in more ways than one.
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June 26, 2020
The president failed to articulate a single second-term priority or goal for his administration.
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June 24, 2020
One striking photograph highlighted the political unrest taking place in the U.S. capital and ac ...
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June 23, 2020
The New York representative did not advocate that governors keep businesses shut down to blunt T ...
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June 22, 2020
“Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended the president go down to the bunker,” AG ...
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June 22, 2020
TikTok users and K-pop music fans claimed to have registered hundreds of thousands of tickets fo ...
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