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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June 19, 2020
More than 1,500 buildings across the Twin Cities were vandalized, looted, or had doors or window ...
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June 17, 2020
Matthias Baldwin was an outspoken critic of slavery decades before the onset of the U.S. Civil War.
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June 17, 2020
The former U.S. secretary of state's lawyers were in court in June 2020 for a hearing about a pu ...
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June 16, 2020
Falsely accusing CNN of altering the racial identity of crime suspects in news photographs has b ...
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June 16, 2020
Southwest Airlines is not giving away free air travel tickets to those who share and comment on ...
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June 15, 2020
A controversial Facebook post about an Oklahoma Walmart store and Black Lives Matter was quickly ...
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June 15, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to 1,107 cadets at West Point's 2020 graduation ceremonies.
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June 14, 2020
Adolf Hitler posed as a champion of law and order, claiming he would uphold traditional German v ...
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June 13, 2020
An ANTIFAmily credit card is a joke with no actual connection to the Antifa movement.
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June 11, 2020
A meme suggested all kinds of political legal news happened in early June 2020 amid unrelated, n ...
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June 10, 2020
Beware of imitations -- many politicians look alike.
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June 10, 2020
Just as with food products, it pays to check the date stamped on news articles.
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June 10, 2020
Pandas that staff believe to be expecting are given a single, air-conditioned room, as well as m ...
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June 10, 2020
Trump's "poorly educated" line sparked much reaction, including smirking and shock.
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June 9, 2020
This Black child star was a household name well before Little Richard became one.
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June 8, 2020
"Per capita" means the average per person and is often used in place of "per person" in statisti ...
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June 8, 2020
Contrasting the number of hours involved in two very different types of training is misleading.
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June 7, 2020
The graphic was used to illustrate market reactions to historic periods of civil unrest.
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June 7, 2020
A plea that dozens of horses are destined for slaughter if adopters are not found for them soon ...
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June 4, 2020
This has all the signs of a manipulated image.
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