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
Jan. 13, 2011
Members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus sent President Obama a letter correcting his referenc ...
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Jan. 9, 2011
Did Obama stop wearing his wedding ring and wristwatch for Ramadan?
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Jan. 8, 2011
Will Facebook be closing down for good on 15 May 2013?
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Jan. 5, 2011
The FDA is donating $1 to homeless shelters for every person who changes their Facebook profile ...
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Jan. 3, 2011
U.S. companies operating overseas telephone service centers do not have to transfer customers to ...
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Jan. 2, 2011
Federal agencies offer recruitment incentives for new hires that may include student loan repaym ...
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Dec. 26, 2010
Photograph shows child crying upon seeing Santa Claus' grave?
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Dec. 21, 2010
A fired department store Santa reportedly gained revenge on his former employer by spelling out ...
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Dec. 20, 2010
The facts just don't add up in this email sent to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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Dec. 20, 2010
A girl killed herself after her father posted something awful on her Facebook wall?
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Dec. 13, 2010
U.S. Marine Corporal Derek Wyatt was killed in Afghanistan just before his wife gave birth to a son.
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Dec. 8, 2010
Card-skimming thieves can read information from RFID-enabled credit cards carried in pockets and ...
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Dec. 5, 2010
E-mail phishing scam poses as notifications for Adobe PDF Reader software upgrades.
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Dec. 4, 2010
Although the claimed location may be a bit off, the photograph is real.
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Dec. 3, 2010
A video clip showing Barack Obama supposedly acknowledging that he is not a natural-born U.S. ci ...
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Dec. 2, 2010
"A 38-year-old female mortuary worker is being held on $250,000 bond after becoming pregnant by ...
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Dec. 2, 2010
Was an air traveler arrested after ejaculating during a TSA patdown?
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Nov. 29, 2010
Slideshow presents photorealistic paintings by an artist named Anna Kostenko?
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Nov. 22, 2010
President Obama plans to freeze the pay of active duty military personnel?
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Nov. 22, 2010
Rumor: A TSA screener was caught masturbating to images of airline travelers displayed on a body ...
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