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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Jan. 29, 2020
You can take the virus out of the farm, but you can't ...
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Jan. 24, 2020
You might need reins on horses ... but a "horse power control device" on your car?
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Jan. 23, 2020
Red flag laws allow law enforcement agencies to act on court orders and remove guns from people ...
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Jan. 21, 2020
Rumor holds that Donald Trump has paid off multiple sexual partners to obtain abortions and sign ...
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Jan. 21, 2020
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Jan. 20, 2020
Quote: "Since we know that the system will not change the rules, we're going to have to change t ...
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Jan. 20, 2020
Searching the long quote trails of public figures often turns up interesting statements from day ...
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Jan. 17, 2020
What politicians want and what the law says are not necessarily congruent.
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Jan. 16, 2020
There are many lands: some of them have magic, some do not, and some need it.
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Jan. 15, 2020
Not everything that is lacking in color is necessarily very old as well.
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Jan. 10, 2020
A horse needs a house, of course, of course.
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Jan. 9, 2020
What should be deferred is the further spreading of this quote meme.
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Jan. 9, 2020
The origins of a frequently repurposed anti-Islam photograph remain murky.
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Jan. 7, 2020
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Jan. 7, 2020
White evangelical Christians are a powerful force in the Republican Party.
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Jan. 7, 2020
Comic strips are not infrequently altered to replace their original dialogue with political mess ...
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Jan. 7, 2020
Arizona U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a fake image of a meeting between former President Barack O ...
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Jan. 6, 2020
A spectacular image of red-tinted clouds at sunset was repurposed to connect it with 2020 bushfi ...
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Jan. 5, 2020
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Jan. 5, 2020
“Every wedding ring here represents a home broken and a human murdered by the Germans."
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