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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July 16, 2013
Is George Zimmerman suing Trayvon Martin's parents for their failure to control their son?
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July 16, 2013
Did George Zimmerman win a Florida state lottery jackpot?
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July 16, 2013
Graphic compares the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Marley Lion.
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July 15, 2013
Has the Obama administration 'filed federal charges against George Zimmerman'?
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July 14, 2013
Emails comparing the killing of an 18-month-old to the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin started circ ...
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July 12, 2013
A TV station was pranked with fake names for pilots involved in an airline crash.
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July 12, 2013
Did the Obama administration 'snub' the funeral of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher?
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July 11, 2013
Did a division of the U.S. Department of Justice organized rallies calling for the arrest and pr ...
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July 10, 2013
WARNING -- DISTURBING IMAGES: Photographs purportedly showing people in Thailand carving up and ...
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July 10, 2013
Letter from high school offers to allow students to make monetary donations to offset inattendan ...
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July 9, 2013
Rumor: Video shows Golden Corral restaurant storing food in an outdoor trash enclosure.
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July 8, 2013
Country singer Charlie Daniels authored an opinion piece about press coverage of the Paula Deen ...
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July 5, 2013
Satire repurposed American history in describing a modern ambush near Boston that killed 72 Nati ...
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July 4, 2013
An open microphone supposedly caught President Obama muttering caustic comments about the 4th of ...
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July 2, 2013
Will Russian forces be providing security at large events in the U.S.?
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July 2, 2013
Rumor: President Obama has canceled July 4 celebrations at U.S. military bases to save money.
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July 2, 2013
Rumor: President Obama told a group of college students not to celebrate the 4th of July.
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July 1, 2013
Did Paula Deen blame 'Jew executives' for her dismissal from the Food Network?
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July 1, 2013
A newspaper article warning that climate change was melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife w ...
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June 29, 2013
Some conspiracy theories are so far-fetched that they don't even have the tiniest amount of evid ...
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