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).
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July 23, 2009
Is the job of President of the United States being outsourced to India?
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July 22, 2009
Is the ACLU seeking to have a cross removed from the Mojave National Preserve in California?
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July 21, 2009
Photographs show a mass migration of rays in the Gulf of Mexico?
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July 20, 2009
Rumor: Photograph shows an F/A-18 Hornet flying past a Detroit apartment building.
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July 20, 2009
Sometimes the answer is spelled out right before your eyes.
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July 18, 2009
Image shows a magazine's projection of what Michael Jackson would look like at age 40?
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July 18, 2009
Rumor: Video clip shows President Obama being snubbed while attempting to shake hands during a v ...
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July 17, 2009
A video clip captures a 'Russia's Got Talent' contestant accidentally shooting his partner in th ...
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July 17, 2009
Sociology Professor Anne Wortham wrote an article critical of Barack Obama?
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July 16, 2009
Rumor: Photograph shows a car plowing into a group of cyclists?
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July 15, 2009
Video shows a driver being thrown from his car in a collision and being run over by oncoming tra ...
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July 14, 2009
Account relates an experience with Darrell 'Shifty' Powers?
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July 14, 2009
Barack Obama traveled to Pakistan in 1981 using a non-U.S. passport?
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July 13, 2009
Michelle Obama and her daughters toured London for two days after President has returned to U.S.?
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July 12, 2009
Did Judge Sonia Sotomayor say that 'the time has come to end white male oppression by castrating ...
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July 9, 2009
"I never meant to lie and destroy Michael Jackson but my father made me to tell the lies."
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July 9, 2009
Message warns that health care reform will be a 'death warrant' for seniors.
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July 8, 2009
Article contrasts observances of the deaths of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson.
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July 7, 2009
Was the third 'Smokey and the Bandit' film originally shot with Jackie Gleason playing both the ...
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July 7, 2009
President Obama issued an executive order apologizing to Great Britain for the Declaration of In ...
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