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
April 16, 2020
A snarky tweet about the U.S. House Speaker from the president took aim at her February 2020 vis ...
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April 15, 2020
Many people do more than one thing, in different places, during their lifetimes.
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April 13, 2020
"There may and likely will come a time in which we have an airborne disease that is deadly," sai ...
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April 10, 2020 (Updated: Sept. 14, 2022)
A fictional scandal created for a TV show was turned into a darker and even more fictional scandal.
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April 10, 2020
A fresh meme resurrected and combined some stale claims that we had already investigated at length.
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April 9, 2020
The news outlet acknowledged the error, but that wasn't the end of the story.
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April 9, 2020
Parody news sometimes looks just like real news.
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April 9, 2020
Who could have seen this coming? Just about anyone who can read.
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April 8, 2020
"I came for the album cover and stayed for the music."
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April 8, 2020
Yet another "free coupon" scam attempted to lure social media users with bogus promises.
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April 7, 2020
The predictive value of cherry-picked data is generally low to insignificant.
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April 6, 2020
One cannot break laws that do not exist.
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April 6, 2020
American intelligence agencies have concluded that the Chinese government itself does not know t ...
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April 4, 2020
Caption: "During difficult times the first ones you have to keep under control are the jackasses ...
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April 3, 2020
The IRS has not announced if Americans will be able to track the status of their stimulus paymen ...
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April 3, 2020
Yet another "free coupon" scam attempted to lure social media users with bogus promises.
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April 2, 2020
Someone you don’t know sends you a check, then asks you to deposit it and send some of the money ...
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April 2, 2020
Somehow, some way, business magnate George Soros gets accused of being involved in almost every ...
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March 31, 2020
Critics have questioned the wisdom of exporting to China medical supplies that would soon be vit ...
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March 31, 2020
"Las Vegas is now packing people into concrete grids out of sight," one critic proclaimed.
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