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
July 28, 2011
In 2006, did Barack Obama speak out against raising the debt limit?
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July 28, 2011
Video clip shows Tacoma housing development 'built for illegal immigrants' who are receiving 're ...
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July 27, 2011
Servicemen refused service at a Sak-N-Pak in Corbin, Kentucky?
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July 24, 2011
Scam os spread via notices of a 'spider under the skin' video.
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July 16, 2011
While it is possible for one to be injured or killed by a lightning strike while bathing, such o ...
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July 14, 2011
Rumors that a worker at a Pepsi or Frooti plant contaminated those beverage products by injectin ...
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July 12, 2011
A virus is being spread via e-mails about a parking violation ticket issued in another city.
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July 12, 2011
Video clip shows a wrench being duplicated by a 3D printer?
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July 11, 2011
Transcript reproduces a speech given by Texas governor Rick Perry.
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July 10, 2011
Is a scam being spread via notices of a 'Casey Anthony Confession Video'?
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June 30, 2011
Photographs show artworks created in planted rice fields?
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June 28, 2011
Photographs show arch in Nagasaki which withstood an atomic bomb and an earthquake/tsunami?
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June 23, 2011 (Updated: Aug. 5, 2022)
We've seen such claims circulating online since at least 2007.
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June 22, 2011
Fauxtography: Photograph purportedly shows a frog in a jar of pickles.
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June 21, 2011
The letter read, in part: "I can think of no quicker way to destroy my career than to appear in ...
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June 12, 2011
Barack Obama did not appropriate the Social Security number of a dead man born in 1890 and use i ...
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June 12, 2011
"This receipt was found in the parking lot of the grocery store in Menominee, Michigan."
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June 9, 2011
Photograph shows the gravestone of actor Leslie Nielsen?
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