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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Sept. 30, 2019
You never can tell what unintended elements might end up in your pictures.
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Sept. 25, 2019
The government has not historically been interested in tracking the wear of citizens' automobile ...
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Sept. 23, 2019
If you think this is scary, you ought to check out some of Iron Maiden's album covers.
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Sept. 20, 2019
"I think it's the belief that you can't live in Hollywood and be happily married, but you can," ...
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Sept. 18, 2019
The Academy Award-winning actress was supposedly deemed too "ugly" for what would have been her ...
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Sept. 16, 2019
We tried very hard not to dance around the answer to this question.
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Sept. 6, 2019
Somehow this major news item escaped the attention of every mainstream press organization in the ...
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Sept. 5, 2019
Don't sue summer ... or any of the other seasons.
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Sept. 5, 2019
The usual political game-playing about a gunman's supposed political affiliations took place onl ...
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Sept. 4, 2019
The Cajun Navy 2016 are second responders from Louisiana who offer volunteer assistance during h ...
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Sept. 3, 2019
There's fighting tough, and then there's playing tough ...
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Sept. 3, 2019
Posting messages on social media does not immunize one from undesirable legal consequences.
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Sept. 2, 2019
Four wrongs don't add up to anything other than a completely unsubstantiated rumor.
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Aug. 30, 2019
The middle of a Category 3 hurricane is probably not the best time to be making decisions about ...
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Aug. 30, 2019
Persons notable for achievements in one field of science aren't necessarily reliable prognostica ...
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Aug. 28, 2019
News outlets have reported conflicting information about new USCIS guidance involving children b ...
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Aug. 28, 2019
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Aug. 28, 2019
No bones about it, this is junk news spawned by conspiracy theories surrounding high-profile cri ...
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Aug. 27, 2019
One tweet can cause a storm of sharing ... and massive headaches for companies unfairly targeted ...
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Aug. 21, 2019
Citizenship is one of 72 questions on the American Community Survey (ACS), an annual sampling of ...
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