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
June 9, 2006
Photographs show a hoe excavator that crashed into a highway overpass.
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June 8, 2006
The USS New York's bow stem was said to incorporate 7.5 tons of scrap steel from the World Trad ...
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June 8, 2006
Is Congress seeking to cut federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
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June 7, 2006
Did Ronald Reagan once say, 'If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all'?
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June 5, 2006
Petition seeks to overturn vote granting Social Security benefits to illegal aliens.
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June 4, 2006
In 2006, a roll call vote was paired with a mischaracterization of the amendment in question.
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June 1, 2006
Photos purportedly show a mother tiger at a California zoo who nursed a group of piglets after h ...
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May 29, 2006
Photographs show sign-bearing Muslim protesters at a demonstration in London, but not a
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May 28, 2006
The emptied beer cans and boxes appear to make up almost the entirety of the trash in the rooms, ...
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May 27, 2006
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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May 25, 2006
Photograph shows a fox amidst a group of dogs?
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May 24, 2006 (Updated: June 24, 2022)
A photograph purportedly showing a 28-foot alligator captured in Florida is real but exaggerated.
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May 24, 2006
Does an outtake from 'Mister Ed' capture the talking equine making a racist comment?
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May 24, 2006
E-mail describes ruse intended to scare away littering Mexican construction workers.
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May 23, 2006 (Updated: March 29, 2011)
Will slightly overpaying a traffic ticket keep points off your driving record?
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May 23, 2006
Petition addresses environmental issues associated with the Pascua-Lama mining operation in Chile.
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May 14, 2006 (Updated: May 4, 2011)
Ashley Flores: missing child or Internet hoax?
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May 13, 2006
Did shoplifting and other forms of crime decrease dramatically on 1 May 2006?
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May 4, 2006
Did country music star Charlie Daniels write an essay about immigration reform demonstrations?
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May 4, 2006
A long-held rumor claims that Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma were created to represent s ...
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