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
Sept. 11, 2012
A backdrop of naval vessels displayed at the 2012 Democratic National Convention included images ...
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Sept. 10, 2012
In June 2012, were 79% of General Motors' sales made to the federal government?
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Sept. 9, 2012
Scott Paulson penned an opinion piece about the film '2016: Obama’s America' for CBS Local?
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Sept. 6, 2012
A popular tweet purportedly reproduced actor Morgan Freeman's comment about homophobia.
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Sept. 6, 2012
Information about the Windows Live Update virus.
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Sept. 5, 2012
Rumor: Video clip shows a suppressed Fox News broadcast about Barack Obama.
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Sept. 3, 2012
President Obama did not issue a whopping 923 executive orders, giving the government unprecedent ...
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Sept. 3, 2012
Rumor: Photograph shows a dogfighting event sponsored by Heineken beer.
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Sept. 3, 2012
Is Mitt Romney's campaign slogan, 'Keep America American,' identical to a catchphrase once used ...
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Aug. 31, 2012
Bill Nye 'blasted' Rep. Todd Akin for accusing him of 'personally provoking Hurricane Isaac'?
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Aug. 30, 2012
Photograph shows Michelle Obama and her daughters draped in the South African colors at the 2012 ...
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Aug. 28, 2012
Reports that Samsung paid off a $1.05 billion judgment awarded to Apple in a patent infringement ...
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Aug. 24, 2012
Mychal Massie wrote an opinion piece entitled 'Why I Do Not Like the Obamas'?
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Aug. 23, 2012
Words long attributed to South African president Nelson Mandela were actually written by a 2020 ...
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Aug. 22, 2012
Photograph shows a half-black, half-tabby 'chimera cat'?
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Aug. 21, 2012
Actress Martha Raye entertained troops and tended to wounded soldiers in the field in Vietnam?
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Aug. 21, 2012
Did Mitt Romney say he was 'too important to go to Vietnam'?
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Aug. 20, 2012
Viral message claims the traffic accident rate in Dallas declined sharply after police began imp ...
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Aug. 19, 2012
Mercury, Venus and Saturn were aligned in December 2012, but that phenomenon did not appear as s ...
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Aug. 16, 2012
Paul Ryan has sponsored two Congressional bills that have been passed into law?
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