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).
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 2, 2020
Whatever the situation today might be, one can usually find an old Trump tweet about it.
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May 31, 2020
Democrats, antifa, and George Soros are the usual bogeymen claimed to be behind liberal politica ...
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May 31, 2020
"Most in the FAKE NEWS media will claim there's no such thing as a paid liberal protester."
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May 31, 2020
Grease fires are an occupational hazard at restaurants, protests or no protests.
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May 31, 2020
Junk news in, junk news out.
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May 31, 2020
"We condemn those who would undermine our democracy by spreading lies to our fellow citizens"
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May 30, 2020
Controversy over the Minnesota man's death was stoked in a fake tweet attributed to President Do ...
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May 30, 2020
A short, sketchy social media video created a misleading impression of forces called out to deal ...
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May 30, 2020
"Arguments must be crude, clear, and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the int ...
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May 26, 2020
Unverified, random tweets are not regarded as reliable sources by real journalists.
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May 25, 2020
Memorial Day is for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died while serving in ...
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May 22, 2020
The video recorded outside a shopping mall after a knife attack in 2019 shows officers using a T ...
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May 21, 2020
"Conflating voters choosing not to cast their ballot with 'missing' ballots is a fundamental fla ...
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May 20, 2020
Giuliani tacitly echoed President Donald Trump's assertion that the COVID-19 coronavirus came fr ...
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May 20, 2020
The New York governor was one of several state officials who were voted substantial, phased-in p ...
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May 19, 2020
The CDC recommends that members of the public use simple cloth face coverings in public settings ...
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May 19, 2020 (Updated: May 21, 2020)
Muzzles can serve a variety of purposes, but none includes preventing the transmission of infect ...
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May 18, 2020
A meme provided some factual information, but also excluded many complexities in telling the sto ...
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May 17, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump has appeared on the cover of Time magazine dozens of times.
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May 17, 2020
This story originated on a website that calls its content satire but has since been reproduced a ...
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