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
Aug. 20, 2019
Something that was fine for children a century ago would now be considered inappropriate in so m ...
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Aug. 20, 2019
Bad history does not make for good learning.
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Aug. 16, 2019
Baseball's long history at the center of American sports has spawned numerous myths and legends.
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Aug. 13, 2019
News, like food, is best consumed at the time it is prepared.
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Aug. 12, 2019
Quoting his wife: "Bernie, what's going on? Do you have any access to records?"
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Aug. 12, 2019
The segment prompted numerous rebuttals condemning the "maliciousness of the attack" on the lega ...
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Aug. 10, 2019
Sometimes alleged historical parallels that seem a bit too apt appear so because they actually t ...
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Aug. 4, 2019
A Twitter rumor held that the chief executive's team went on a deletion spree after a mass shoot ...
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Aug. 4, 2019
Pranksters and critics play politics with online info in the wake of a mass shooting.
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Aug. 3, 2019
Social media accounts are typically scrutinized for clues to the motivations of mass shooters.
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Aug. 2, 2019
We prefer using a microwave oven and saving the pickles to make Dill Popcorn.
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July 31, 2019
Many readers were surprised by the results of a 2018 global survey about countries where conditi ...
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July 30, 2019
Nothing jump-starts a Twitter fight better than obvious failures in chronology.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 23, 2019
Public notices apparently have taken on a more "in your face" political stance in New York.
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July 22, 2019
It's hard to find a race in which the winning candidate had less of a need to resort to election ...
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July 22, 2019
A laudable goal ... that is, if worded right.
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July 21, 2019
The American public deserves something better than ridiculously false memes.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 19, 2019
Absent proper context and punctuation, oral speech can be made to come across pretty silly.
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