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
Nov. 28, 2006
Is eBay requesting that users update their account information?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 26, 2006
Rumor: Photographs show a series of frighteningly emaciated models.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 25, 2006
Phishing scheme sent by e-mail targets Social Security recipients.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 25, 2006
Phishing scheme sent by e-mail targets Social Security recipients.
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Nov. 18, 2006
A serviceman's poem describes a soldier's night before Christmas.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 18, 2006
Video clip shows a music-playing 'farm machine' built at the University of Iowa?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 16, 2006
Robert Duvall was killed in a fall from a cliff while filming in New Zealand?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 15, 2006
Did evangelist Billy Graham lead a parade through New Orleans on a scooter?
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Nov. 12, 2006 (Updated: Oct. 10, 2022)
As the story goes, her father drove his truck into a pile of leaves in which she was playing, ki ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 11, 2006
Photograph shows a U.S. airman comforting an injured Iraqi child?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 11, 2006
E-mail requests prayers for David and Christina Kristynik.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 11, 2006
Is the Best Buy chain eschewing use of the word 'Christmas' in its 2006 holiday advertising?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 10, 2006
Photographs shows a 412-lb. deer killed in Nebraska.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 9, 2006
Photograph supposedly depicts a breast rash caused by 'South American larvae'?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 9, 2006
A recall has been issued for store-brand acetaminophen pills manufactured by Perrigo.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 8, 2006
Photographs of the Pearl Harbor attack that were supposedly recently found in an old camera stor ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 8, 2006
Photograph shows U.S. troops in Iraq holding up a sign mocking comments by Senator John Kerry.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 7, 2006
Fact Check: Were 70% of the women who gave birth at Parkland Hospital in 2006 illegal immigr ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 6, 2006
Did Albert Einstein declare compound interest to be 'the most powerful force in the universe'?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 5, 2006
Photographs show a Space Shuttle launch viewed from the International Space Station.
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