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
Aug. 18, 2010
Photograph shows soldier shaking hands with Sen. Hillary Clinton while crossing his fingers?
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Aug. 18, 2010
Photographs supposedly show a cache of weapons confiscated from a site on the Arizona border.
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Aug. 15, 2010
The father of Chelsea Clinton's husband is a former congressman who pled guilty to fraud charges.
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Aug. 15, 2010
Rumor: Photographs show a black white-tailed deer fawn?
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Aug. 12, 2010
Legends describe some hilarious mishaps about a band who supposedly couldn't remember what they ...
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Aug. 10, 2010
Mexican legislators expressed concern that an Arizona law would prompt an influx of Mexicans int ...
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Aug. 10, 2010
A Home Depot employee was fired after refusing to remove a patriotic button from his work apron?
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Aug. 9, 2010 (Updated: June 30, 2025)
A prayer request about a 22-month-old child who shot himself in the heart with a nail gun has ci ...
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Aug. 7, 2010
Five Saturdays, five Sundays, and five Mondays in month is not a phenomenon that occurs only on ...
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Aug. 5, 2010
WND falsely claimed Obama nominated Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court as a reward for getting 9 ...
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Aug. 3, 2010
Virus warning: A computer virus called 'Black Muslim in the White House' will burn your entire h ...
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Aug. 1, 2010
Does a video clip capture Barack Obama 'lying' about his father's military service?
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July 28, 2010
Did Rep. Gabrielle Giffords ask Gen. David Petraeus what he was 'doing to reduce carbon emission ...
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July 27, 2010
Is the Obama administration proposing a 1% tax on debit card usage and/or banking transactions?
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July 26, 2010
Images of a "fire waterfall" or "firefall" in California's Yosemite National Park have more than ...
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July 21, 2010
Rumor: Photographs show a toppled crane that fell through the first floor of a building under co ...
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July 21, 2010
Photographs show a 'censored' protest against a planned mosque in New York City?
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July 18, 2010
Photographs show Muslims praying in the streets of New York City.
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July 18, 2010
Rumor claims the Obamas had their dog, Bo, flown on his own government airplane to join them on ...
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July 13, 2010
An oil company ad bragging how many tons of glacier they could melt seemed innocent enough in 19 ...
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