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
Feb. 21, 2010
Rumor: Photograph shows John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe sharing an intimate moment.
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Feb. 11, 2010
Rumor: Photographs show President Obama using teleprompters to talk to a group of elementary sch ...
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Feb. 10, 2010
A photograph of President Obama with his feet on his Oval Office desk is genuine, but the act it ...
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Feb. 10, 2010
President Obama signed an executive order to lend $2 billion to a Brazilian oil company?
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Feb. 9, 2010
Photograph shows a billboard bearing a picture of President Bush and the legend 'Miss Me Yet?'?
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Feb. 9, 2010
Wounded veterans paraded through halls of the Pentagon every Friday morning?
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Feb. 8, 2010
Canadian Howard Galganov penned an 'I Told You So' editorial about Barack Obama?
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Feb. 8, 2010
Was a 'Wall Street Journal' editorial about Barack Obama's 'Make-Believe Life' written by Eddie ...
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Feb. 7, 2010
Photographs show a moose that had just given birth in the front yard of a house in Michigan.
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Feb. 2, 2010
Entering 'Automation Labs' into Facebook's 'Block List' option will display a list of twenty pe ...
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Feb. 2, 2010
Listing yourself as your friend on Facebook does not create an 'open door' for hackers.
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Feb. 2, 2010
Convenience is a service consumers generally should expect to pay extra for.
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Jan. 31, 2010
Politician has an encounter with circle flies.
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Jan. 28, 2010
Do photographs show a rental car ruined by a tourist who drove it 130 miles in first gear?
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Jan. 27, 2010
An 'Unnamed app' in Facebook's profile settings harbors a spybot?
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Jan. 27, 2010
Photographs show 'Giant George,' a 7-foot long Blue Great Dane.
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Jan. 26, 2010
Will all U.S. federal income tax refunds paid in 2010 will be issued in the form of U.S. savings ...
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Jan. 25, 2010
"This was an error in judgment that shouldn't have happened."
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Jan. 24, 2010
"Motorcycle gangs are one of the biggest abusers of wearing leather, and we decided it was high ...
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Jan. 18, 2010
Rumor: Photographs show a Ford Mustang ad campaign utilizing semi-transparent billboards.
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