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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Jan. 22, 2013
Was Dakota Lamb's hair cut by bullies on a bus?
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Jan. 19, 2013
"We wanted to pick a time when we were positive nothing would be happening that our viewers woul ...
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Jan. 16, 2013
Is 15-year-old Molly Barnes missing?
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Jan. 16, 2013
Did Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller send a letter to Vice President Biden stating that he would ...
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Jan. 11, 2013
GEICO canceled an automobile insurance policy because the policyholder works in the weapons indu ...
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Jan. 11, 2013
Did Wyoming pass a bill banning enforcement of federal gun laws?
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Jan. 10, 2013
Ronald Reagan once said that "an AK-47 is not a sporting weapon nor needed for defense of a home."
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Jan. 10, 2013
Did the German dictator once proclaim that 'To conquer a nation, you must first disarm its citiz ...
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Jan. 10, 2013
Chart shows eleven 'death spiral' states where more people are on welfare than are employed?
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Jan. 8, 2013
In 2010, an armed school resource officer at Sullivan Central High School held a gunman at bay u ...
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Jan. 8, 2013
Health care legislation imposes a 2.3% excise tax on the sale of medical devices as of 1 January ...
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Jan. 7, 2013
U.S. troops deployed overseas are not being deprived of breakfast due to budget cuts.
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Jan. 6, 2013
A list of instances supposedly proving voter fraud in the 2012 U.S. presidential election only d ...
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Jan. 6, 2013
Is UGGs giving away free pairs of boots to Facebook users?
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Jan. 6, 2013
Photograph shows playground sign with more restrictive wording in Spanish than in English?
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Jan. 4, 2013
One of the most iconic modern images demonstrates the potential costs of military service in war ...
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Jan. 3, 2013
Letter from former Marine criticizes Sen. Dianne Feinstein's gun control proposal?
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Jan. 3, 2013
12-year-old Brent Jones is missing from his Zalma, Missouri, home?
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Dec. 30, 2012
An off-duty sheriff's officer apprehended a gunman by shooting him in a San Antonio movie theater.
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Dec. 29, 2012
A photograph is said to show a tree that grew around a bicycle left behind by a boy who went off ...
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