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
Sept. 30, 2013
The Talking Angela app supposedly unsafely prompts children to provide personal information abou ...
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Sept. 30, 2013
New form of STD discovered among residents of Portland, Oregon?
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Sept. 27, 2013
Fake news reports President Obama has announced a nationwide Muslim outreach program for childre ...
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Sept. 27, 2013
Can a drug concoction known as krokodil rot the skin of users who inject it?
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Sept. 26, 2013
Photograph shows a man with a nose growing on his forehead?
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Sept. 24, 2013
Did wearing certain types of sanitary pads cause uterine and bladder cancer that has resulted in ...
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Sept. 22, 2013
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Sept. 22, 2013
A 2012 interview with a Salvation Army official fanned the flames of controversy over that organ ...
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Sept. 21, 2013
Has President Obama suffered a mental breakdown?
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Sept. 20, 2013
Will National Guard resources be called out to block protesting truckers from using Interstate 4 ...
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Sept. 19, 2013
Rumor: President Bill Clinton issued an executive order disarming soldiers on military bases.
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Sept. 17, 2013
An Associated Press news article about the Washington Navy Yard shootings was dated the day prio ...
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Sept. 17, 2013
Has the town of DeQuincy, Louisiana, made twerking illegal?
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Sept. 16, 2013
Has actor Mel Gibson's daughter married a Jewish man?
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Sept. 16, 2013
Has President Obama pardoned and released all the prisoners being held at the Guantanamo Bay det ...
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Sept. 15, 2013
No, our article about a supposed Obama and Kagan connection wasn't wrong.
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Sept. 15, 2013
Photograph purportedly shows President Obama not saluting the flag during the playing of the U.S ...
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Sept. 12, 2013
Has author J. K. Rowling announced plans to pen a new book in the 'Harry Potter' series?
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Sept. 11, 2013
Has author J.K. Rowling announced plans to pen a new book in the 'Harry Potter' series?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 11, 2013
An eight-year-old Yemeni girl reportedly died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after ma ...
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