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. 24, 2019
Even congressional committee chairpersons don't have the power to take pictures with the dead.
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Nov. 19, 2019
The infamous drug lord seemingly traveled and dressed well while serving time behind bars in Mexico.
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Nov. 17, 2019
Republicans clashed with U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff over their quest ...
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Nov. 16, 2019
Another example of an attack on a politician based on a misleading 'middle finger' photograph.
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Nov. 15, 2019
Critics maintain the bill prevents students from being penalized if their work is scientifically ...
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Nov. 12, 2019
The civilian prosecution of a former president has never been undertaken in U.S. history.
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Nov. 11, 2019
Bud Light is not giving away free 24-packs of beer to Facebook users to celebrate the company's ...
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Nov. 11, 2019
Sometimes the "real meaning" of an artwork is "this looks good."
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Nov. 11, 2019
Political causes sometimes bring seemingly unlikely constituencies together.
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Nov. 10, 2019 (Updated: Feb. 18, 2020)
An interview response by National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien left people confused about Vin ...
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Nov. 9, 2019
And does it have a pot of gold at the end of each leg?
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Nov. 7, 2019
A man who had mysteriously disappeared 74 years earlier reportedly turned up in New York City in ...
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Nov. 5, 2019
Legend has it that the business savvy of "Mary Ann's" husband garnered her a lifetime of royalty ...
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Nov. 4, 2019
One of the factors behind the Mets' 1986 World Series win may have been a lack of 'dinosaur poli ...
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Oct. 30, 2019
This was one of the more famous quotes about a Beatle.
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Oct. 27, 2019
Critics claimed a picture of President Trump watching a raid in Syria unfold from the White Hous ...
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Oct. 27, 2019
Taking (or denying) credit for momentous collective achievements is an age-old phenomenon in the ...
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Oct. 24, 2019
An infant's brain and a mother's love are both remarkable enough phenomena, without the need for ...
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Oct. 16, 2019
Some forms of crime aren't as easy to pull off as they used to be.
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Oct. 1, 2019
An Indian website muddied an already confusing issue about marriage in Iran by republishing a se ...
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