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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April 16, 2012
Were American 'blue laws' so named because they were originally printed on blue paper?
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April 14, 2012
We don't mean to be crude. This photograph purportedly shows a food can labeled "fish assholes."
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April 12, 2012
Don't follow links posted on Facebook that supposedly point to a leaked video of a roller coaste ...
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April 11, 2012
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company ...
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April 10, 2012
Photograph shows a U.S. Marine wounded in Afghanistan.
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April 9, 2012
Is a scam being spread via Newegg.com order confirmations?
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April 7, 2012
Has the world's first hotel for sheep opened in Japan?
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April 5, 2012
Is a scam being spread via Delta Air Lines ticket purchase confirmation e-mails?
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April 5, 2012
A 15-year-old girl named Sierra LaMar is missing from her California home?
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April 4, 2012
Living turtles and fish have been packaged in plastic bags and sold as souvenir keyrings in China.
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April 4, 2012
A 2-month-old girl was badly burned in the hand by emergency room staff at a Merced hospital?
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April 4, 2012
Photograph shows a student with cerebral palsy who was left alone apart from the rest of the cho ...
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April 3, 2012
Woodfork, 22, was sentenced to consecutive life sentences on separate counts of felony murder, a ...
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April 2, 2012
Is a scam being spread via US Airways online reservation confirmations?
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April 2, 2012
Poem and picture supposedly document a child abuse victim.
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April 1, 2012 (Updated: Oct. 15, 2019)
Account describes the shooting of White Plains resident Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.
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March 29, 2012
Photographs purportedly showing shooting victim Trayvon Martin are actually pictures of other pe ...
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March 28, 2012
Did Malia Obama travel to Mexico in March 2012?
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March 27, 2012
Prayers are requested for Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor who is facing execution in Iran.
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March 27, 2012
Urban Outfitters CEO Richard Hayne donated money to Rick Santorum and opposes gay marriage and a ...
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