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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Dec. 26, 2012
Photographs of actor Denzel Washington visiting Brooke Army Medical Center.
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Dec. 26, 2012
Warning alerts social media users that Facebook 'pirates' Facebook "pirates" perpetrate scams by ...
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Dec. 26, 2012
Is a scam being spread via FedEx undeliverable parcel notifications?
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Dec. 26, 2012
Is 16-year-old Madison Morris missing from her Killeen, Texas, home?
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Dec. 26, 2012
Rumor: The reality TV series 'Amish Mafia' depicts the real-life exploits of Amish 'fixers' in L ...
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Dec. 26, 2012
Is a man named Anthony Southern wanted by police for beating a 17-month-old child?
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Dec. 26, 2012
Did the Journal News publish a map showing the home addresses of handgun permit holders in two N ...
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Dec. 26, 2012
Was Bill O’Reilly arrested for assaulting a department store Santa?
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Dec. 22, 2012
The story of how NORAD came to track Santa's progress every Christmas Eve.
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Dec. 22, 2012
Former president George H.W. Bush was a Life Member of the NRA, but not for his whole life.
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Dec. 19, 2012
Video shows an eagle attempting to snatch a child from a park?
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Dec. 18, 2012
Switzerland issues firearms to adult men and provides training in their use?
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Dec. 18, 2012
More homicides in the U.S. are committed with baseball bats than with firearms?
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Dec. 18, 2012
Does an advertisement by the Brady Campaign contrast rape with gun murders?
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Dec. 14, 2012
Various rumors connected with the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Dec. 14, 2012 (Updated: Feb. 13, 2018)
A video supposedly documenting that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a staged ...
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Dec. 14, 2012
A video purportedly captured holiday lights in Brighton incorporating rude images and messages.
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Dec. 11, 2012
Actor Jamie Foxx said of his upcoming film, 'I kill all the white people in the movie ... How gr ...
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Dec. 9, 2012
Has the U.S. contributed millions of dollars towards the rebuilding of mosques in Muslim countries?
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Dec. 9, 2012 (Updated: Aug. 23, 2022)
On Aug. 23, 2005, meteorologists identified the storm that would become Hurricane Katrina about ...
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