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
Oct. 8, 2012
Account describes a customer purchasing a single grape to obtain cash back from an EBT card?
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Oct. 4, 2012
Wayne Allyn Root opined that President Obama will lose his re-election bid in 2012 by a landslide.
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Oct. 3, 2012
Steve Kroft of '60 Minutes' penned an article critical of George Soros?
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Oct. 3, 2012
Are members of the TNT Car Club running over motorcycle riders as part of a gang initiation?
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Oct. 2, 2012
Is the fruit from the graviola tree a miraculous natural cancer cell killer?
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Oct. 2, 2012
"I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues. Since they won't te ...
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Sept. 29, 2012
The recirculation of a several-year-old, misleadingly headlined news story has spread the mistak ...
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Sept. 28, 2012
A football player at Lancaster High School severely beat a gay student but was not charged with ...
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Sept. 27, 2012
Are your Facebook private inbox messages now visible for all to see?
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Sept. 26, 2012
The Democratic National Convention declined to allow a prayer from a Catholic official but did a ...
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Sept. 26, 2012
Did the 2012 Democratic National Convention decline to allow churches to donate gift baskets to ...
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Sept. 25, 2012
According to rumors the word 'swag' carried a clandestine message.
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Sept. 25, 2012
In one of his films, did Tony Curtis deliver the line, 'Yondah lies da castle of my foddah'?
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Sept. 24, 2012
Mitt Romney said he didn't know why airplane windows don't open?
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Sept. 20, 2012
Rumor: Image shows a proposed redesign of the U.S. flag offered by President Obama.
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Sept. 18, 2012
Account describes Israel's preparations for an imminent military attack on Iran?
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Sept. 18, 2012
U.S. news accounts reported that Ambassador Stevens was alive when brought to a hospital, and he ...
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Sept. 16, 2012
"The next time someone needs you ... just be there."
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Sept. 13, 2012
Did the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt prevent Marines stationed at the U.S. embassy in Cairo from car ...
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Sept. 12, 2012
Did President Obama's 19-year-old son appear at the Democratic National Convention?
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