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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Feb. 7, 2013
A photograph purportedly shows a 'Giant Hawaiian Cane Spider' on the side of a house.
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Feb. 7, 2013
Account describes women manipulating the short sales of properties?
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Feb. 6, 2013
Account describes Rose, an 87-year-old college student who returned to school to finish her degree?
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Feb. 6, 2013
Is a 37-year-old man named Joseph Rummerfield missing from the Tulare, California, area?
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Feb. 5, 2013
Fake news articles report that Congress is beginning impeachment hearings against President Obama.
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Feb. 5, 2013
The development of mold is an occasional and inevitable result of packaging food without preserv ...
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Feb. 5, 2013
Alarmist warnings about beaver-derived castoreum are overblown: its use is now exceedingly rare, ...
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Feb. 4, 2013
Police are looking for a beating suspect named Dusty Wes Edwards?
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Feb. 3, 2013
The Dick Act of 1902 grew out of the American experience with the Spanish-American War of 1898 a ...
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Feb. 1, 2013
A New York man was arrested for carrying ammunition magazines that were banned under a law not y ...
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Jan. 31, 2013
Seussian response to a lawyer's contested request for Christmas vacation.
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Jan. 31, 2013
Rumor: Photographs show a fishing boat capsized by a black marlin.
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Jan. 30, 2013
Ann Coulter refused to stay aboard an airplane piloted by a black woman?
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Jan. 28, 2013
Jeff Foxworthy is one of several comedians perhaps more well known online for things he didn't s ...
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Jan. 28, 2013
Some Facebook users are eligible to claim a payout from the settlement of the 'Fraley v. Faceboo ...
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Jan. 26, 2013
Beginning on 27 January 2013, credit card users will be assessed an additional 4% fee on their p ...
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Jan. 25, 2013
A cyber-security bill passed by Congress will violate constitutional protections?
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Jan. 25, 2013
A truck cargo of road signs revealed a government plot to impose martial law?
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Jan. 24, 2013
President Obama is not purging U.S. military leaders who refuse to fire on U.S. citizens.
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Jan. 24, 2013
Did an 'expressionless' apparition in a blood-covered gown appear at Cedars-Sinai hospital in 1972?
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